CVE-2018-3040 Denial of service in Banking Corporate Lending

Medium 6.5 Published 18 Jul 2018 Updated 2 Oct 2024

A low-privileged attacker can cause a complete denial of service in Oracle Banking Corporate Lending 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-2018-3040?

CVE-2018-3040 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Oracle Corporation Banking Corporate Lending, 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 Banking Corporate Lending component of Oracle Financial Services Applications (subcomponent: Core module). Supported versions that are affected are 12.3.0, 12.4.0, 12.5.0, 14.0.0 and 14.1.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle Banking Corporate Lending. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle Banking Corporate Lending. 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-2018-3040?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Oracle Banking Corporate Lending.

How do I fix CVE-2018-3040?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-3040 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-2018-3040 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-3040 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-jp2c-85pm-hhg6.