# CVE-2022-21273: Missing authorization in Project Costing

> A low-privileged attacker can exploit this vulnerability to unauthorizedly read, create, delete, or modify critical data in Oracle Project Costing.

- **Severity:** High 8.1 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/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:** 19 Jan 2022
- **Updated:** 24 Sep 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-g287-7g7m-crm8

## What is CVE-2022-21273?

CVE-2022-21273 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Oracle Corporation Project Costing, published on 19 Jan 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Vulnerability in the Oracle Project Costing product of Oracle E-Business Suite (component: Expenses, Currency Override). Supported versions that are affected are 12.2.3-12.2.11. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle Project Costing. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all Oracle Project Costing accessible data as well as unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle Project Costing accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 8.1 (Confidentiality and Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N).

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-21273?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Oracle Project Costing.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-21273?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-21273 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2022-21273 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-21273 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-21273 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-21273 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Oracle Corporation Project Costing, published on 19 Jan 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-21273 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Oracle Corporation Project Costing. 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-2022-21273/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-21273/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-21273
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-21273
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-21273

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-21273/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.