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CVE-2024-21126 — Vulnerability in the Oracle Database Portable Clusterware component of Oracle Database Server

Medium CVSS 5.8

Vulnerability in the Oracle Database Portable Clusterware component of Oracle Database Server. Supported versions that are affected are 19.3-19.23 and 21.3-21.14. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via DNS to compromise Oracle Database Portable Clusterware. While the vulnerability is in Oracle Database Portable Clusterware, attacks may significantly impact additional products (scope change). Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Oracle Database Portable Clusterware. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 5.8 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L).

Severity
Medium
CVSS
5.8 (3.1)
Published
2024-07-16
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-400

Affected products

  • oracle / database_server

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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

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