What is CVE-2018-16956?

CVE-2018-16956 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Oracle Webcenter Interaction, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-09-18.

How severe is CVE-2018-16956?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Improper input validation in Oracle Webcenter Interaction

CVE-2018-16956

The AjaxControl component of Oracle WebCenter Interaction Portal 10.3.3 does not validate the names of pages when processing page rename requests. Pages can be renamed to include characters unsupported for URIs by the web server hosting the WCI Portal software (such as IIS). Renaming pages to include unsupported characters, such as 0x7f, prevents these pages from being accessed over the web server, causing a Denial of Service (DoS) to the page. NOTE: this CVE is assigned by MITRE and isn't validated by Oracle because Oracle WebCenter Interaction Portal is out of support.

Vulnerability class: Drupalgeddon 2 (CVE-2018-7600)

EPSS: 0.012 (66.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Oracle Webcenter_interaction — versions 10.3.3
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation

References

cve@mitre.org (Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-16956?: CVE-2018-16956 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Oracle Webcenter Interaction, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-09-18.
How severe is CVE-2018-16956?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.