SB2022071935 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Oracle Communications BRM - Elastic Charging Engine

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 4 secuirty vulnerabilities.

1) Information Exposure Through Timing Discrepancy (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-38153)

The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.

the vulnerability exists due to some components in Apache Kafka use "Arrays.equals" to validate a password or key, which is vulnerable to timing attacks. A local user can abuse the "Arrays.equals" to brute force access credentials and escalate privileges on the system.

2) Code Injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-44832)

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

The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation. A remote user with permission to modify the logging configuration file can construct a malicious configuration using a JDBC Appender with a data source referencing a JNDI URI which can execute remote code.

3) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-43859)

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

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

4) Improper input validation (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-37137)

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation within the Content Acquisition System (Netty) component in Oracle Commerce Guided Search. A remote non-authenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html?904649