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CVE-2024-21167

8.1 HIGH
Authentication Bypass

📋 TL;DR

This vulnerability in Oracle Trading Community's Party Search UI allows authenticated attackers with low privileges to perform unauthorized data manipulation and access. It affects Oracle E-Business Suite versions 12.2.3 through 12.2.13. Attackers can create, delete, modify, or view sensitive data within the Trading Community module.

💻 Affected Systems

Products:
  • Oracle E-Business Suite Trading Community
Versions: 12.2.3-12.2.13
Operating Systems: All platforms running Oracle E-Business Suite
Default Config Vulnerable: ⚠️ Yes
Notes: Requires Oracle Trading Community component to be installed and accessible via HTTP.

📦 What is this software?

Trading Community by Oracle

View all CVEs affecting Trading Community →

⚠️ Risk & Real-World Impact

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Worst Case

Complete compromise of Oracle Trading Community data including unauthorized modification or deletion of critical business data and exposure of all sensitive information within the module.

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Likely Case

Unauthorized access to and manipulation of customer, partner, or trading data leading to data integrity issues and potential business disruption.

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If Mitigated

Limited impact if proper network segmentation, least privilege access controls, and monitoring are implemented to detect suspicious activities.

🌐 Internet-Facing: HIGH
🏢 Internal Only: HIGH

🎯 Exploit Status

Public PoC: ✅ No
Weaponized: UNKNOWN
Unauthenticated Exploit: ✅ No
Complexity: LOW

Requires authenticated access but with low privileges. No public exploit code available as of analysis.

🛠️ Fix & Mitigation

✅ Official Fix

Patch Version: Apply Oracle Critical Patch Update July 2024

Vendor Advisory: https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2024.html

Restart Required: Yes

Instructions:

1. Download the July 2024 Critical Patch Update from Oracle Support. 2. Apply the patch to affected Oracle E-Business Suite instances. 3. Restart the application services. 4. Test functionality in a non-production environment first.

🔧 Temporary Workarounds

Network Access Restriction

linux

Restrict network access to Oracle E-Business Suite to only trusted IP addresses and networks.

Use firewall rules to limit access: iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 8000 -s trusted_network -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 8000 -j DROP

Privilege Reduction

all

Review and reduce privileges for all user accounts to minimum required levels.

Use Oracle E-Business Suite security administration tools to audit and modify user privileges

🧯 If You Can't Patch

  • Implement strict network segmentation and firewall rules to limit access to Oracle E-Business Suite
  • Enhance monitoring and alerting for suspicious data access or modification patterns in Trading Community module

🔍 How to Verify

Check if Vulnerable:

Check Oracle E-Business Suite version and patch level via Oracle applications manager or query database for version information.

Check Version:

SELECT RELEASE_NAME FROM FND_PRODUCT_GROUPS;

Verify Fix Applied:

Verify patch application through Oracle applications manager and test Party Search UI functionality.

📡 Detection & Monitoring

Log Indicators:

  • Unusual data access patterns in Trading Community logs
  • Multiple failed then successful authentication attempts
  • Unexpected data modifications in Party Search transactions

Network Indicators:

  • Unusual HTTP requests to Party Search UI endpoints
  • Traffic from unexpected source IPs to Oracle E-Business Suite

SIEM Query:

source="oracle-ebs" AND (event_type="data_modification" OR event_type="unauthorized_access") AND module="Trading Community"

📊 Metadata

CVE ID: CVE-2024-21167
CVSS v3 Score: 8.1 (HIGH)
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Published: July 16, 2024
Last Updated: December 5, 2024

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