2019-17566 | Oracle Hyperion Financial Reporting Apache Batik input validation

By Max On Jul 24, 2021

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7.2	$5k-$25k	0.17

A vulnerability was found in Oracle Hyperion Financial Reporting 11.1.2.4/11.2.5.0 (Financial Software) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Apache Batik. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privilege escalation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-20. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:

Apache Batik is vulnerable to server-side request forgery, caused by improper input validation by the “xlink:href” attributes. By using a specially-crafted argument, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the underlying server to make arbitrary GET requests.

The weakness was disclosed 07/20/2021 as Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory – July 2021. The advisory is shared for download at oracle.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-17566 since 10/14/2019. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $5k-$25k (estimation calculated on 07/24/2021).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

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