CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2020-14580 — Oracle Communications Applications security vulnerability

High CVSS 8.2

Vulnerability in the Oracle Communications Session Border Controller product of Oracle Communications Applications (component: System Admin). Supported versions that are affected are 8.1.0, 8.2.0 and 8.3.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via SSH to compromise Oracle Communications Session Border Controller. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker and while the vulnerability is in Oracle Communications Session Border Controller, 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 Communications Session Border Controller accessible data as well as unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Oracle Communications Session Border Controller accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Oracle Communications Session Border Controller. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 8.2 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L).

Severity
High
CVSS
8.2 (3.1)
Published
2020-07-15
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application

Affected products

  • oracle / communications_applications / 8.1.0
  • oracle / communications_applications / 8.2.0
  • oracle / communications_applications / 8.3.0

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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