SB2021012059 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Oracle Health Sciences Information Manager

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SB2021012059 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Oracle Health Sciences Information Manager

Published: January 20, 2021

Security Bulletin ID SB2021012059
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) Improper Certificate Validation (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-9488)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform man-in-the-middle attack.

The vulnerability exists due to the Apache Log4j SMTP appender does not validate SSL certificates. A remote attacker can perform a MitM attack, intercept and decrypt network traffic.


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.

References