Improper privilege management in Oracle Communications Convergence
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Privilege escalation
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-269.
Summary
Vulnerability in the Oracle Communications Convergence product of Oracle Communications Applications (component: Admin Configuration). The supported version that is affected is 3.0.3.1.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle Communications Convergence. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Oracle Communications Convergence. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 8.8 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2023-21848
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-9j5c-cgmx-gr22
- 2026-10-27 EPSS moved to the 50th–90th percentile
References
Patch 1
More Oracle Communications Convergence vulnerabilities
- TI-2021-20437 Apache Log4j2 does not always protect from infinite recursion in lookup evaluation CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.9
- TI-2019-07411 Deserialization of untrusted data in Apache Commons Beanutils CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.3
- TI-2018-15967 Legion of the Bouncy Castle Legion of the Bouncy Castle Java Cryptography APIs 1.58 up to… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2021-10139 Possible limited path traversal vulnerabily in Apache Commons IO CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
- TI-2020-17076 An issue was discovered in Legion of the Bouncy Castle BC Java 1.65 and 1.66. CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1
- TI-2019-12957 The ASN.1 parser in Bouncy Castle Crypto (aka BC Java) 1.63 can trigger a large attempted… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
Sources
- CVE-2023-21848 · CVE Program
- CVE-2023-21848 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-9j5c-cgmx-gr22 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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