Executive brief
A vulnerability exists in the User Interface of Oracle Marketing, a component of the Oracle E-Business Suite used for managing marketing campaigns and customer data. An unauthenticated attacker could exploit this flaw to gain unauthorized access to sensitive marketing information or modify existing records. Successful exploitation requires a legitimate user to interact with a malicious link or page, which could lead to a significant breach of data confidentiality and integrity across the platform.
Technical details
This vulnerability affects the User Interface subcomponent of Oracle Marketing within Oracle E-Business Suite. It is categorized as an easily exploitable flaw that allows an unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise the application. The attack requires human interaction from a person other than the attacker (User Interaction: Required) and has a 'Changed' Scope, meaning the impact can extend beyond the Oracle Marketing component to other parts of the E-Business Suite. Successful exploitation can result in unauthorized high-impact confidentiality breaches and low-impact integrity violations, such as unauthorized data insertion or deletion. Affected versions include 12.1.1 through 12.2.6.
Affected products
- Oracle Marketing 12.1.1, 12.1.2, 12.1.3, 12.2.3, 12.2.4, 12.2.5, 12.2.6
Timeline
- 2017-01-27: disclosed
- 2017-01-27: advisory: Oracle Critical Patch Update (CPU) January 2017 released