# CVE-2019-2959: Missing authorization in Hyperion Financial Reporting

> High-privileged attackers can modify or delete critical data in Oracle Hyperion Financial Reporting via HTTP with user interaction.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.2 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 16 Oct 2019
- **Updated:** 1 Oct 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-4cr9-hrr7-mxfq

## What is CVE-2019-2959?

CVE-2019-2959 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Oracle Corporation Hyperion Financial Reporting, published on 16 Oct 2019. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

Vulnerability in the Hyperion Financial Reporting product of Oracle Hyperion (component: Security Models). The supported version that is affected is 11.1.2.4. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Hyperion Financial Reporting. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all Hyperion Financial Reporting accessible data. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 4.2 (Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N).

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-2959?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Oracle Hyperion Financial Reporting.

## How do I fix CVE-2019-2959?

No fix has been published for CVE-2019-2959 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2019-2959 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-2959 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Oracle Corporation Hyperion Financial Reporting

- [CVE-2026-70739](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-70739/): Auth bypass in Oracle Hyperion Financial Reporting (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2026-70740](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-70740/): Auth bypass in Oracle Hyperion Financial Reporting (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2026-70745](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-70745/): Auth bypass in Oracle Hyperion Financial Reporting (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2016-3493](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-3493/): Other in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2026-70741](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-70741/): Missing authorization in Oracle Hyperion Financial Reporting (critical 9.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2019-2959 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2019-2959 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Oracle Corporation Hyperion Financial Reporting, published on 16 Oct 2019. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-2959 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Oracle Corporation Hyperion Financial Reporting. 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-2019-2959/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-2959/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-2959
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-2959
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-2959

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