CVE-2018-2978 Missing authorization in Hospitality Simphony
Low-privileged attackers can modify or read critical data and cause partial denial of service in Oracle Hospitality Simphony via HTTP.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2018-2978?
CVE-2018-2978 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Oracle Corporation Hospitality Simphony, published on 18 Jul 2018. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Vulnerability in the Oracle Hospitality Simphony component of Oracle Hospitality Applications (subcomponent: Import/Export). Supported versions that are affected are 2.8, 2.9 and 2.10. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle Hospitality Simphony. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all Oracle Hospitality Simphony accessible data as well as unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle Hospitality Simphony accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Oracle Hospitality Simphony. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 7.1 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L).
Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-2978?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Oracle Hospitality Simphony.
How do I fix CVE-2018-2978?
No fix has been published for CVE-2018-2978 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2018-2978 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-2978 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Oracle Corporation Hospitality Simphony
Sources
Also known as GHSA-xhh7-q873-6hpj.