What is CVE-2024-20941?

CVE-2024-20941 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Oracle Installed Base, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2024-02-17.

How severe is CVE-2024-20941?

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

Is CVE-2024-20941 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Out-of-bounds Read in Oracle Installed Base

CVE-2024-20941

Vulnerability in the Oracle Installed Base product of Oracle E-Business Suite (component: HTML UI). 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 Installed Base. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker and while the vulnerability is in Oracle Installed Base, 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 Installed Base accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle Installed Base 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).

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2024-02-17 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (27.5th percentile), scored 2026-10-01.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 27th percentile — 27.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Oracle Installed Base
Oracle Corporation Installed Base — versions 12.2.3

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read

Public proof-of-concept exploits

fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds

References

www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2024.html (vendor-advisory, Patch, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-20941?: CVE-2024-20941 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Oracle Installed Base, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2024-02-17.
How severe is CVE-2024-20941?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-20941 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.