MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2016-3542

Knowledge Management vulnerability

CVSS
6.5
EPSS
9.7%
EPSS pct
95th
Exploited
No known
Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle Knowledge Management component in Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1.1, 12.1.2, 12.1.3, 12.2.3, 12.2.4, and 12.2.5 allows remote administrators to affect confidentiality and integrity via unknown vectors.
Affected vendor
Oracle
Affected product
Knowledge Management
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Published
2016-07-21

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring high privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 9.7% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2016-3542

  • Confirm whether Oracle Knowledge Management is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2016-3542.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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