# CVE-2018-2855: Missing authorization in Financial Services Basel Regulatory Capital Basic

> Low-privileged attackers can unauthorizedly read, create, delete, or modify critical data in Oracle Financial Services Basel Regulatory Capital Basic via HTTP.

- **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:** 19 Apr 2018
- **Updated:** 3 Oct 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-h698-4h3v-pjg4

## What is CVE-2018-2855?

CVE-2018-2855 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Oracle Corporation Financial Services Basel Regulatory Capital Basic, published on 19 Apr 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 Basel Regulatory Capital Basic component of Oracle Financial Services Applications (subcomponent: Portfolio, Attribution). The supported version that is affected is 8.0.x. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle Financial Services Basel Regulatory Capital Basic. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all Oracle Financial Services Basel Regulatory Capital Basic accessible data as well as unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle Financial Services Basel Regulatory Capital Basic 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-2018-2855?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Oracle Financial Services Basel Regulatory Capital Basic.

## How do I fix CVE-2018-2855?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-2855 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2018-2855 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-2855 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Oracle Corporation Financial Services Basel Regulatory Capital Basic

- [CVE-2018-2854](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-2854/): Cross-site scripting in Financial Services Basel Regulatory Capital Basic (medium 6.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2018-2855 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2018-2855 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Oracle Corporation Financial Services Basel Regulatory Capital Basic, published on 19 Apr 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-2018-2855 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Oracle Corporation Financial Services Basel Regulatory Capital Basic. 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-2018-2855/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-2855/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-2855
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-2855
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-2855

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