What is CVE-2017-3300?

CVE-2017-3300 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Oracle Peoplesoft Enterprise Peopletools, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2017-01-27.

How severe is CVE-2017-3300?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

XSS in Oracle Peoplesoft Enterprise Peopletools

CVE-2017-3300

Vulnerability in the PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools component of Oracle PeopleSoft Products (subcomponent: Multichannel Framework). Supported versions that are affected are 8.54 and 8.55. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker and while the vulnerability is in PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools, attacks may significantly impact additional products. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools accessible data. CVSS v3.0 Base Score 6.1 (Confidentiality and Integrity impacts).

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2017-01-27 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.016 (75.0th percentile), scored 2026-10-01.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 75th percentile — 75.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.016 · newest: 0.016 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Oracle Peoplesoft Enterprise Peopletools — versions 8.54, 8.55
Oracle Peoplesoft Enterprise Pt Peopletools — versions 8.54, 8.55

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/95505 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
www.securitytracker.com/id/1037634 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
erpscan.io/advisories/erpscan-17-005-oracle-peoplesoft-xss-vulnerability/ (Third Party Advisory)
www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2017-2881727.html (Patch, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-3300?: CVE-2017-3300 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Oracle Peoplesoft Enterprise Peopletools, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2017-01-27.
How severe is CVE-2017-3300?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.