SB2023011848 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition



SB2023011848 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition

Published: January 18, 2023 Updated: March 25, 2025

Security Bulletin ID SB2023011848
Severity
High
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 6
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Code execution

Breakdown by Severity

High 17% Medium 83%
  • Low
  • Medium
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  • Critical

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 6 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Security features bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-24329)

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

The vulnerability exists due to unspecified error, related to the ability to lock dependencies for Kotlin Multiplatform Gradle projects.



2) Improper input validation (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-21861)

The vulnerability allows a remote authenticated user to read and manipulate data.

The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation within the Visual Analyzer component in Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. A remote authenticated user can exploit this vulnerability to read and manipulate data.


3) Improper input validation (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-21892)

The vulnerability allows a remote authenticated user to read and manipulate data.

The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation within the Visual Analyzer component in Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. A remote authenticated user can exploit this vulnerability to read and manipulate data.


4) Improper input validation (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-21891)

The vulnerability allows a remote authenticated user to read and manipulate data.

The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation within the Visual Analyzer component in Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. A remote authenticated user can exploit this vulnerability to read and manipulate data.


5) Deserialization of Untrusted Data (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-25647)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insecure input validation when processing serialized data passed to writeReplace() method. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform a denial of service attack.


6) Code Injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-42889)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to an insecure variable interpolation when processing untrusted input. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted input and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

Note, the vulnerability was dubbed Text4shell.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.