Quick answers
- Is CVE-2016-8323 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2016-8323 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2016-8323?
- Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 5.4, published 27 January 2017.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Oracle Flexcube Core Banking 5.1.0, 5.2.0, 11.5.0.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2016-8323?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2016-8323 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in a network appliance.
- Am I affected by CVE-2016-8323?
- Check whether you run Oracle Flexcube Core Banking at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
An improper access control vulnerability (CWE-284) exists in the Core subcomponent of Oracle FLEXCUBE Core Banking. The flaw is easily exploitable by a low-privileged attacker with network access via HTTP. Successful exploitation allows the attacker to perform unauthorized read, update, insert, or delete operations on a subset of the application's data. The vulnerability affects versions 5.1.0, 5.2.0, and 11.5.0. Oracle addressed this issue in the January 2017 Critical Patch Update.
Affected products
- Oracle FLEXCUBE Core Banking 5.1.0, 5.2.0, 11.5.0
Timeline
- 2017-01-27: disclosed
- 2017-01-27: advisory: Oracle January 2017 Critical Patch Update released