CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-5587

Improper Access Control

Published: Oct 25, 2016 | Modified: Jul 29, 2017
CVSS 3.x
8.2
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.x
6.4 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle Customer Interaction History component in Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1.1 through 12.1.3, 12.2.3, and 12.2.4 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality and integrity via unknown vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-5591 and CVE-2016-5593.

Weakness

The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Customer_interaction_history Oracle 12.1.1 (including) 12.1.1 (including)
Customer_interaction_history Oracle 12.1.2 (including) 12.1.2 (including)
Customer_interaction_history Oracle 12.1.3 (including) 12.1.3 (including)
Customer_interaction_history Oracle 12.2.3 (including) 12.2.3 (including)
Customer_interaction_history Oracle 12.2.4 (including) 12.2.4 (including)

Extended Description

Access control involves the use of several protection mechanisms such as:

When any mechanism is not applied or otherwise fails, attackers can compromise the security of the product by gaining privileges, reading sensitive information, executing commands, evading detection, etc. There are two distinct behaviors that can introduce access control weaknesses:

Potential Mitigations

  • Compartmentalize the system to have “safe” areas where trust boundaries can be unambiguously drawn. Do not allow sensitive data to go outside of the trust boundary and always be careful when interfacing with a compartment outside of the safe area.
  • Ensure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design, and the compartmentalization allows for and reinforces privilege separation functionality. Architects and designers should rely on the principle of least privilege to decide the appropriate time to use privileges and the time to drop privileges.

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