# CVE-2018-2721: Missing authorization in Financial Services Price Creation and Discovery

> Low-privileged attackers can unauthorizedly read, create, delete, or modify critical data in Oracle Financial Services Price Creation and Discovery.

- **Severity:** High 8.1 (`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 18 Jan 2018
- **Updated:** 3 Oct 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-cgcw-5935-5p78

## What is CVE-2018-2721?

CVE-2018-2721 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Oracle Corporation Financial Services Price Creation and Discovery, published on 18 Jan 2018. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Vulnerability in the Oracle Financial Services Price Creation and Discovery component of Oracle Financial Services Applications (subcomponent: User Interface). The supported version that is affected is 8.0.5. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle Financial Services Price Creation and Discovery. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all Oracle Financial Services Price Creation and Discovery accessible data as well as unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle Financial Services Price Creation and Discovery accessible data. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 8.1 (Confidentiality and Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N).

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-2721?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Oracle Financial Services Price Creation and Discovery.

## How do I fix CVE-2018-2721?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-2721 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2018-2721 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-2721 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Oracle Corporation Financial Services Price Creation and Discovery

- [CVE-2020-2942](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-2942/): Missing authorization in Financial Services Price Creation and Discovery (high 7.1)
- [CVE-2018-2722](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-2722/): Cross-site scripting in Financial Services Price Creation and Discovery (medium 6.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2018-2721 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2018-2721 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Oracle Corporation Financial Services Price Creation and Discovery, published on 18 Jan 2018. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-2721 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Oracle Corporation Financial Services Price Creation and Discovery. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-2721/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-2721/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-2721
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-2721
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-2721

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