CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-8311

Improper Access Control

Published: Jan 27, 2017 | Modified: Feb 11, 2017
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
4 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Vulnerability in the Oracle FLEXCUBE Universal Banking component of Oracle Financial Services Applications (subcomponent: Core). Supported versions that are affected are 11.3.0, 11.4.0, 12.0.1, 12.0.2, 12.0.3, 12.1.0 and 12.2.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle FLEXCUBE Universal Banking. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle FLEXCUBE Universal Banking accessible data. CVSS v3.0 Base Score 6.5 (Confidentiality impacts).

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
Flexcube_universal_banking Oracle 11.3.0 (including) 11.3.0 (including)
Flexcube_universal_banking Oracle 11.4.0 (including) 11.4.0 (including)
Flexcube_universal_banking Oracle 12.0.1 (including) 12.0.1 (including)
Flexcube_universal_banking Oracle 12.0.2 (including) 12.0.2 (including)
Flexcube_universal_banking Oracle 12.0.3 (including) 12.0.3 (including)
Flexcube_universal_banking Oracle 12.1.0 (including) 12.1.0 (including)
Flexcube_universal_banking Oracle 12.2.0 (including) 12.2.0 (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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