CVE-2018-2979 Denial of service in FLEXCUBE Universal Banking

Medium 6.5 Published 18 Jul 2018 Updated 2 Oct 2024

A low-privileged attacker can cause a complete denial of service in Oracle FLEXCUBE Universal Banking via HTTP requests.

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-2018-2979?

CVE-2018-2979 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Oracle Flexcube Universal Banking, 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 FLEXCUBE Universal Banking component of Oracle Financial Services Applications (subcomponent: Infrastructure). Supported versions that are affected are 11.3.0, 11.4.0, 12.0.1, 12.0.2, 12.0.3, 12.1.0, 12.2.0, 12.3.0, 12.4.0, 14.0.0 and 14.1.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle FLEXCUBE Universal Banking. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle FLEXCUBE Universal Banking. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 6.5 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-2979?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Oracle Flexcube Universal Banking.

How do I fix CVE-2018-2979?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-2979 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-2018-2979 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-2979 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Oracle Flexcube Universal Banking vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-q929-c7rr-4wf9.