Oracle Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (Jan 2021 CPU)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 145245

Synopsis

The remote host is affected by a vulnerability

Description

According to its self-reported version number, the Oracle Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) installation running on the remote web server is 16.2.x through 16.2.20.0, 17.12.x through 17.12.19, 18.8.x through 18.8.21, 19.12.1.x prior to 19.12.10. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the January 2021 CPU advisory.:

- Vulnerability in the Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management product of Oracle Construction and Engineering (component: Web access (Spring Framework)). Supported versions that are affected are 16.1.0 through 16.2.20, 17.1.0 through 17.12.19, 18.1.0 through 18.8.21 and 19.12.0 through 19.12.10.
Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker and while the vulnerability is in Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management, attacks may significantly impact additional products. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management accessible data.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Apply the appropriate patch according to the January 2021 Oracle Critical Patch Update advisory.

See Also

https://www.oracle.com/a/tech/docs/cpujan2021cvrf.xml

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 145245

File Name: oracle_primavera_p6_eppm_cpu_jan_2021.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: remote

Family: CGI abuses

Published: 1/22/2021

Updated: 12/5/2022

Configuration: Enable thorough checks

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.6

Temporal Score: 2.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-5421

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:oracle:primavera_p6_enterprise_project_portfolio_management

Required KB Items: www/weblogic, installed_sw/Oracle Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM)

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/19/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/19/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-5421