CVE-2023-22077 Denial of service in Database - Enterprise Edition

Medium 4.9 Published Updated

A high-privileged attacker can cause a complete denial of service in Oracle Database Recovery Manager via network access.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
An administrator
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2023-22077?

CVE-2023-22077 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Oracle Database Server, published on 17 Oct 2023. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Vulnerability in the Oracle Database Recovery Manager component of Oracle Database Server. Supported versions that are affected are 19.3-19.20 and 21.3-21.11. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker having DBA account privilege with network access via Oracle Net to compromise Oracle Database Recovery Manager. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle Database Recovery Manager. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 4.9 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-22077?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Oracle Database Server.

How do I fix CVE-2023-22077?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-22077 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-2023-22077 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-22077 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code: 1 proofs of concept on GitHub.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-r78r-gvgq-2chj.

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