MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2017-3548

Peoplesoft Enterprise Peopletools vulnerability

CVSS
6.5
EPSS
25.8%
EPSS pct
98th
Exploited
No known
Vulnerability in the PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools component of Oracle PeopleSoft Products (subcomponent: Integration Broker). Supported versions that are affected are 8.54 and 8.55. Easily "exploitable" vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized read access to a subset of PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 6.5 (Confidentiality and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L).
Affected vendor
Oracle
Affected product
Peoplesoft Enterprise Peopletools
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-611 — XML External Entity (XXE) Reference
Published
2017-04-24

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 25.8% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2017-3548

  • Confirm whether Oracle Peoplesoft Enterprise Peopletools is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2017-3548.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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