CVE-2025-21506
Published: 21 January 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-21506 is a high-severity Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863) vulnerability in Oracle E-Business Suite. Its CVSS base score is 8.1 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 47.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 AC-3 (Access Enforcement) and SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2025-21506 is a vulnerability in the Oracle Project Foundation product of Oracle E-Business Suite, specifically affecting the Technology Foundation component. Supported versions impacted by this issue range from 12.2.3 to 12.2.13. Published on 2025-01-21, it carries a CVSS 3.1 base score of 8.1 with the vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N and is associated with CWE-863.
The vulnerability is easily exploitable by a low-privileged attacker who has network access via HTTP. Successful attacks allow the compromise of Oracle Project Foundation, resulting in unauthorized creation, deletion, or modification of critical data or all Oracle Project Foundation accessible data, as well as unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle Project Foundation accessible data. The impacts are high for confidentiality and integrity, with no availability impact.
Mitigation details are provided in the Oracle security advisory at https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2025.html.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-2495
Vulnerability details
Vulnerability in the Oracle Project Foundation product of Oracle E-Business Suite (component: Technology Foundation). Supported versions that are affected are 12.2.3-12.2.13. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle Project Foundation. Successful attacks…
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of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all Oracle Project Foundation accessible data as well as unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle Project Foundation accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 8.1 (Confidentiality and Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N).
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Related Threats
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Why these techniques?
The network-accessible authorization vulnerability (CWE-863) in Oracle E-Business Suite directly enables exploitation of a public-facing application (T1190) by low-privileged attackers, facilitating unauthorized access to critical data in information repositories (T1213) and stored data manipulation including creation/deletion/modification (T1565.001).
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Directly mitigates the vulnerability by requiring timely remediation through application of Oracle patches for the affected E-Business Suite versions.
Enforces approved access authorizations in the system, countering the improper authorization (CWE-863) that allows low-privileged attackers unauthorized create/delete/modify/read access to critical data.
Limits privileges to the minimum necessary, reducing the potential impact and scope of exploitation by low-privileged HTTP network attackers.