Oracle WebCenter Portal (April 2024 CPU)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 193572

Synopsis

The remote host is affected by a vulnerability

Description

The 12.2.1.4.0 versions of WebCenter Portal installed on the remote host are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the April 2024 CPU advisory.

- Vulnerability in the Oracle WebCenter Portal product of Oracle Fusion Middleware (component: Content integration). The supported version that is affected is 12.2.1.4.0. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle WebCenter Portal.
Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker and while the vulnerability is in Oracle WebCenter Portal, attacks may significantly impact additional products (scope change). Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Oracle WebCenter Portal accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle WebCenter Portal accessible data. (CVE-2024-20992)

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 April 2024 Oracle Critical Patch Update advisory.

See Also

https://www.oracle.com/docs/tech/security-alerts/cpuapr2024csaf.json

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2024.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 193572

File Name: oracle_webcenter_portal_cpu_apr_2024.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: windows, macosx, unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 4/19/2024

Updated: 4/19/2024

Configuration: Enable thorough checks

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

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-2024-20992

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:oracle:webcenter_portal, cpe:/a:oracle:fusion_middleware

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Oracle WebCenter Portal

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/16/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/16/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-20992