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CVE-2017-3493 — Oracle Flexcube Enterprise Limits And Collateral Management security vulnerability

High CVSS 8.5

Vulnerability in the Oracle FLEXCUBE Enterprise Limits and Collateral Management component of Oracle Financial Services Applications (subcomponent: Infrastructure). Supported versions that are affected are 12.0.0 and 12.1.0. Easily "exploitable" vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle FLEXCUBE Enterprise Limits and Collateral Management. While the vulnerability is in Oracle FLEXCUBE Enterprise Limits and Collateral Management, attacks may significantly impact additional products. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle FLEXCUBE Enterprise Limits and Collateral Management accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Oracle FLEXCUBE Enterprise Limits and Collateral Management. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 8.5 (Confidentiality and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:L).

Severity
High
CVSS
8.5 (3.0)
Published
2017-04-24
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application

Affected products

  • oracle / flexcube_enterprise_limits_and_collateral_management / 12.0.0
  • oracle / flexcube_enterprise_limits_and_collateral_management / 12.1.0

Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

Complete CVE record and remediation plan

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