Multiple vulnerabilities in Oracle Life Sciences Empirica Signal

Published: 2024-04-17

Risk	Medium
Patch available	YES
Number of vulnerabilities	2
CVE-ID	CVE-2023-42503 CVE-2023-5072
CWE-ID	CWE-400 CWE-770
Exploitation vector	Network
Public exploit	N/A
Vulnerable software Subscribe	Oracle Life Sciences Empirica Signal Server applications / Other server solutions
Vendor	Oracle

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains information about 2 vulnerabilities.

1) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU80788

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-2023-42503

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 parsing .tar archives. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted archive to the application and consume excessive CPU usage.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

Oracle Life Sciences Empirica Signal: 9.1.0.53 - 9.2.0.53

External links

http://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2024.html?1001741

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.

2) Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

EUVDB-ID: #VU82276