CVE-2024-20995 Denial of service in Database - Enterprise Edition
High-privileged attackers can cause partial denial of service in Oracle Database Sharding via network access, requiring human interaction.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-20995?
CVE-2024-20995 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Oracle Database Server, published on 16 Apr 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
Vulnerability in the Oracle Database Sharding component of Oracle Database Server. Supported versions that are affected are 19.3-19.22 and 21.3-21.13. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker having DBA privilege with network access via Oracle Net to compromise Oracle Database Sharding. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Oracle Database Sharding. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 2.4 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L).
Weakness: CWE-404
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-20995?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Oracle Database Server.
How do I fix CVE-2024-20995?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-20995 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-2024-20995 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-20995 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Oracle Database Server
Sources
Also known as GHSA-734v-mgwp-5gmw.