CVE-2022-21432 Denial of service in Text

What is CVE-2022-21432?

CVE-2022-21432 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Oracle Database, published on 19 Jul 2022. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Vulnerability in the Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition RDBMS Security component of Oracle Database Server. Supported versions that are affected are 12.1.0.2, 19c and 21c. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker having DBA role privilege with network access via Oracle Net to compromise Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition RDBMS Security. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition RDBMS Security. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 2.7 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L).

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-21432?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Oracle Database.

How do I fix CVE-2022-21432?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-21432 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-2022-21432 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-21432 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Oracle Database

• CVE-2017-10202 Privilege escalation in Oracle Database Critical 9.9
• CVE-2017-3310 Privilege escalation in Oracle Database Critical 9.0
• CVE-2016-3609 Other in n/a Critical 9.0
• CVE-2016-3454 Other in n/a Critical 9.0
• CVE-2022-21510 Privilege escalation in Database - Enterprise Edition High 8.8

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-xqx5-4x28-3m6v.