CVE-2018-2607 Denial of service in Hospitality Guest Access

Medium 4.9 Published 18 Jan 2018 Updated 3 Oct 2024

A high-privileged attacker can cause a complete denial of service in Oracle Hospitality Guest Access via HTTP.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: An administrator
Attackable: Over the internet
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2018-2607?

CVE-2018-2607 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Oracle Corporation Hospitality Guest Access, published on 18 Jan 2018. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Vulnerability in the Oracle Hospitality Guest Access component of Oracle Hospitality Applications (subcomponent: Base). The supported version that is affected is 4.2.1. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle Hospitality Guest Access. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle Hospitality Guest Access. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 4.9 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-2607?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Oracle Hospitality Guest Access.

How do I fix CVE-2018-2607?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-2607 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2018-2607 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-2607 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-h3h2-jhj6-f5mg.