SB2021012049 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Oracle WebCenter Portal



SB2021012049 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Oracle WebCenter Portal

Published: January 20, 2021

Security Bulletin ID SB2021012049
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Data manipulation

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Protection mechanism failure (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-10086)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass certain security restrictions.

The vulnerability exist due to Beanutils is not using by default the a special BeanIntrospector class in PropertyUtilsBean that was supposed to suppress the ability for an attacker to access the classloader via the class property available on all Java objects. A remote attacker can abuse such application behavior against applications that were developed to rely on this security feature.


2) Exposed dangerous method or function (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-10683)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to abuse implemented functionality.

The vulnerability exists due to dom4j allows by default external DTDs and External Entities. A remote attacker can abuse this functionality and perform XXE attack against application that uses dom4j default configuration.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.