Resource exhaustion in Oracle Retail Sales Audit



Published: 2022-10-19
Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2021-36374
CWE-ID CWE-400
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
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Oracle Retail Sales Audit
Web applications / CRM systems

Vendor Oracle

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU54856

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2021-36374

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when processing ZIP archives. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

Oracle Retail Sales Audit: 19.0.1

External links

http://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2022.html?534495


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.



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