CVE-2024-21063
Published: 16 April 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-21063 is a medium-severity Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource (CWE-732) vulnerability in Oracle Peoplesoft Enterprise Hcm Benefits Administration. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 30.6th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-18777
Vulnerability details
Vulnerability in the PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM Benefits Administration product of Oracle PeopleSoft (component: Benefits Administration). The supported version that is affected is 9.2. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM Benefits…
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Administration executes to compromise PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM Benefits Administration. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM Benefits Administration accessible data as well as unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM Benefits Administration accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM Benefits Administration. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 6.1 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L).
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Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Procedures support proper permission assignment for critical resources through documented controls.
Attribute management for resources provides a mechanism to assign and maintain correct permissions based on security labels.
Prevents overly permissive assignments to critical resources by limiting to task needs.
Training policy covers correct permission assignment, reducing the ability to exploit incorrect permission assignments for critical resources.
Training on permission management reduces incorrect permission assignments for critical resources.
Audit logs and logging tools are critical resources whose protection requires correct permission assignments to block unauthorized actions.
Assessments review permission assignments on critical resources to confirm correctness, mitigating exploitation via incorrect permissions.
Certification includes checking that permissions on critical resources are correctly assigned.