SB2022042279 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications Infrastructure
Published: April 22, 2022 Updated: January 22, 2023
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 3 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Information Exposure Through Timing Discrepancy (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-38153)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
the vulnerability exists due to some components in Apache Kafka use "Arrays.equals" to validate a password or key, which is vulnerable to timing attacks. A local user can abuse the "Arrays.equals" to brute force access credentials and escalate privileges on the system.
2) Infinite loop (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-23437)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to infinite loop when parsing XML documents. A remote attacker can supply a specially crafted XML document, consume all available system resources and cause denial of service conditions.
3) Code Injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-22965)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request to the affected application and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
Note, the vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild.
This vulnerability was dubbed "Spring4Shell".
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.