Cross-site request forgery in Oracle Knowledge Management
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Tampering
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · Low · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-352.
Summary
Vulnerability in the Oracle Knowledge Management product of Oracle E-Business Suite (component: Create, Update, Authoring Flow). Supported versions that are affected are 12.2.3-12.2.13. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle Knowledge Management. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker and while the vulnerability is in Oracle Knowledge Management, attacks may significantly impact additional products (scope change). Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Oracle Knowledge Management accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle Knowledge Management accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 6.1 (Confidentiality and Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N).
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
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-2024-20940
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-m8mm-vphr-qqcp
References
Patch 1
More Oracle Knowledge Management vulnerabilities
- TI-2021-01874 Vulnerability in the Oracle Knowledge Management product of Oracle E-Business Suite… CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.2
- TI-2016-03002 Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle Knowledge Management component in Oracle… CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 6.5
- TI-2017-07750 Vulnerability in the Oracle Knowledge Management component of Oracle E-Business Suite… CVSS 3.0HIGH 8.2
- TI-2017-07749 Vulnerability in the Oracle Knowledge Management component of Oracle E-Business Suite… CVSS 3.0HIGH 8.2
- TI-2017-07748 Vulnerability in the Oracle Knowledge Management component of Oracle E-Business Suite… CVSS 3.0HIGH 8.2
- TI-2017-02562 Vulnerability in the Oracle Knowledge Management component of Oracle E-Business Suite… CVSS 3.0HIGH 8.2
Sources
- CVE-2024-20940 · CVE Program
- CVE-2024-20940 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-m8mm-vphr-qqcp · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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