SB2020102940 - Exposed dangerous method or function in Oracle Health Sciences Empirica Signal



SB2020102940 - Exposed dangerous method or function in Oracle Health Sciences Empirica Signal

Published: October 29, 2020

Security Bulletin ID SB2020102940
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Data manipulation

Breakdown by Severity

Medium 100%
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Exposed dangerous method or function (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-10683)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to abuse implemented functionality.

The vulnerability exists due to dom4j allows by default external DTDs and External Entities. A remote attacker can abuse this functionality and perform XXE attack against application that uses dom4j default configuration.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.