# CVE-2022-21558: Privilege escalation in Crystal Ball

> A local attacker with low privileges can escalate privileges to take over Oracle Crystal Ball, impacting confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

- **Severity:** High 7.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 19 Jul 2022
- **Updated:** 24 Sep 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-2pr7-6gvg-hcv8

## What is CVE-2022-21558?

CVE-2022-21558 is a high-severity vulnerability in Oracle Corporation Crystal Ball, published on 19 Jul 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Vulnerability in the Oracle Crystal Ball product of Oracle Construction and Engineering (component: Installation). Supported versions that are affected are 11.1.2.0.000-11.1.2.4.900. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle Crystal Ball executes to compromise Oracle Crystal Ball. While the vulnerability is in Oracle Crystal Ball, attacks may significantly impact additional products (scope change). Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Oracle Crystal Ball. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 7.8 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H).

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-21558?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Oracle Crystal Ball.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-21558?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-21558 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2022-21558 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-21558 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-21558 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-21558 is a high-severity vulnerability in Oracle Corporation Crystal Ball, published on 19 Jul 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-21558 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Oracle Corporation Crystal Ball. 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-2022-21558/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-21558/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-21558
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-21558
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-21558

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