# CVE-2023-22021: Denial of service in Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition

> A low-privileged attacker can cause a partial denial of service in Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition via network access.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L`)
- **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:** 18 Jul 2023
- **Updated:** 13 Sep 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-9fwh-x4v3-fmmx

## What is CVE-2023-22021?

CVE-2023-22021 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Oracle Business Intelligence, published on 18 Jul 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Vulnerability in the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition product of Oracle Analytics (component: Analytics Server).  Supported versions that are affected are 6.4.0.0.0 and  7.0.0.0.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.  Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 4.3 (Availability impacts).  CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L).

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-22021?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Oracle Business Intelligence.

## How do I fix CVE-2023-22021?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-22021 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2023-22021 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-22021 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Oracle Business Intelligence

- [CVE-2020-14864](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-14864/): Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Path Transversal (high 7.5, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2021-2456](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-2456/): Auth bypass in Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2020-2950](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-2950/): Auth bypass in Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2026-71055](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-71055/): Auth bypass in Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2026-60671](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-60671/): Missing authorization in Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (high 8.6)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2023-22021 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2023-22021 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Oracle Business Intelligence, published on 18 Jul 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-22021 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Oracle Business Intelligence. 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-2023-22021/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-22021/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-22021
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-22021
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-22021

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