CVE-2019-2809 Denial of service in iRecruitment

Medium 5.3 Published 23 Jul 2019 Updated 15 Oct 2024

Unauthenticated attackers can cause a partial denial of service in Oracle iRecruitment via HTTP requests.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Not needed
Attackable: Over the internet
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2019-2809?

CVE-2019-2809 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Oracle Corporation iRecruitment, published on 23 Jul 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Vulnerability in the Oracle iRecruitment component of Oracle E-Business Suite (subcomponent: Password Reset). Supported versions that are affected are 12.1.1 - 12.1.3 and 12.2.3 - 12.2.8. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle iRecruitment. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Oracle iRecruitment. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 5.3 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L).

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-2809?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Oracle Irecruitment.

How do I fix CVE-2019-2809?

No fix has been published for CVE-2019-2809 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-2019-2809 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-2809 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-995p-2cvq-xr72.