CVE-2020-14864 — Oracle
HIGHCVE-2020-14864 is a high-severity (CVSS 7.5) Path Traversal vulnerability. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-01-18) — treat it as actively exploited and patch now. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.
Vulnerability in the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition product of Oracle Fusion Middleware (component: Installation). Supported versions that are affected are 5.5.0.0.0,…
Exploitation Status
Actively exploited in the wild
- Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2022-01-18. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2022-07-18.
- CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA (KEV catalog and SSVC triage) for CVE-2020-14864.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2020-14864 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). In the shaded patch-first corner (EPSS 50%+, CVSS 7.0+).
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 395,249 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the ≥ 90% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.
Description
Vulnerability in the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition product of Oracle Fusion Middleware (component: Installation). Supported versions that are affected are 5.5.0.0.0, 12.2.1.3.0 and 12.2.1.4.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 7.5 (Confidentiality impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N).
Affected Products
business intelligenceoracleResearch use only. For defensive security, authorized penetration testing, and academic research only. Never execute exploit code against systems without explicit written authorization.
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 5.5.0.0.0 / 12.2.1.3.0 / 12.2.1.4.0 - 'getPreviewImage' Directory Traversal/Local File Inclusion
by Ivo Palazzolo · Oct 28, 2020
Detection & mitigation playbook
VulnerabilityDetect
Identify every host running the affected component and compare the installed build against the fixed version below — for source-built or distro-packaged software the version string, not a lockfile, is the source of truth (`dpkg -l`, `rpm -q`, or the binary's own `--version`).
Remediation status
No fixed release is recorded for CVE-2020-14864 yet. Track the upstream advisory, and apply the exposure-reduction steps below in the meantime.
Mitigate without a patch
Resolve every user-supplied path to its canonical form and reject anything that escapes the intended directory, and run the component under an account that has no read or write access outside the directory it legitimately serves.
How to detect CVE-2020-14864
A community-maintained Nuclei template exists for this CVE. You can scan for it directly:
nuclei -id cve-2020-14864 -u https://target- Template
- Oracle Fusion - Directory Traversal/Local File Inclusion
- Severity
- high
- Impact
- Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to read sensitive files, execute arbitrary code, or gain unauthorized access to the system.
- Remediation
- Apply the latest security patches and updates provided by Oracle to fix this vulnerability.
Template by ProjectDiscovery nuclei-templates (Ivo Palazzolo (@palaziv)), MIT licensed. View the full template. Scan only systems you are authorised to test.
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