# CVE-2020-2964: Missing authorization in Financial Services Data Foundation

> Low-privileged attackers can modify or read critical data in Oracle Financial Services Data Foundation due to missing authorization checks.

- **Severity:** High 7.1 (`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 15 Apr 2020
- **Updated:** 27 Sep 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-xg2j-3226-439m

## What is CVE-2020-2964?

CVE-2020-2964 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Oracle Corporation Financial Services Data Foundation, published on 15 Apr 2020. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Vulnerability in the Oracle Financial Services Data Foundation product of Oracle Financial Services Applications (component: User Interface). Supported versions that are affected are 8.0.6 - 8.0.9. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle Financial Services Data Foundation. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all Oracle Financial Services Data Foundation accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle Financial Services Data Foundation accessible data. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 7.1 (Confidentiality and Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N).

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-2964?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Oracle Financial Services Data Foundation.

## How do I fix CVE-2020-2964?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-2964 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2020-2964 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-2964 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

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Check this codebase for CVE-2020-2964 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2020-2964 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Oracle Corporation Financial Services Data Foundation, published on 15 Apr 2020. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-2964 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Oracle Corporation Financial Services Data Foundation. 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-2020-2964/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-2964/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-2964
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-2964
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-2964

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