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OFSAA Infrastructure CVE-2025-53034

MEDIUM
Missing Authentication for Critical Function (CWE-306)
2025-10-21 secalert_us@oracle.com
5.4
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: oracle
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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Identify exposed OFSAA Platform HTTP endpoint
  2. Delivery
    Craft malicious link/request
  3. Exploit
    Lure OFSAA user to interact (UI:R)
  4. Execution
    Trigger action in victim context
  5. Impact
    Read subset + modify some data

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A07:2025 - Authentication Failures
ASVS 5.0
V6 - Authentication Authentication required for critical functions
MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique across 1 tactic: Initial Access

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Exploitation Conditions

Exploitation requires the attacker to induce human interaction from an OFSAA user other than the attacker (CVSS UI:R / 'human interaction' per the description) - e.g., getting a victim to click a crafted link or load attacker-controlled content against the Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications Infrastructure Platform HTTP interface. No attacker authentication is needed (PR:N) and the interface must be network-reachable over HTTP. Limited to versions 8.0.7.9, 8.0.8.7, and 8.1.2.5; impact is confined to a subset of accessible data (partial read) and 'some' records (partial update/insert/delete), with no availability impact. The mandatory victim interaction is the primary factor limiting real-world exploitation.

Impact

This is a moderate-severity, low-priority issue despite being remotely reachable and unauthenticated. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N, base 5.4) shows the key limiter: UI:R means the attack cannot succeed without human interaction from a victim other than the attacker - the unauthenticated network reachability (PR:N) is gated by social engineering. Impact is partial on confidentiality and integrity only (C:L/I:L: read of a data subset plus unauthorized update/insert/delete of 'some' data), with no availability impact. All exploitation signals point low: EPSS is 0.24% (13th percentile), there is no CISA KEV listing, and no public exploit code was identified. The combination of UI:R, partial impacts, and a self-reported Oracle CPU finding (not independently corroborated by exploitation telemetry) indicates this is a defensible patch-in-normal-cycle item, not an emergency. Note a classification tension: CWE-306 (Missing Authentication) and the 'Authentication Bypass' tag sit awkwardly against the vector, since the UI:R + partial C:L/I:L profile is the classic signature of reflected/stored XSS or CSRF rather than a pure authentication bypass - verify the actual flaw class with Oracle before mapping detections.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An unauthenticated attacker crafts a malicious link or page targeting an exposed OFSAA Platform HTTP interface and lures an authenticated OFSAA user (an analyst or administrator) into interacting with it. When the victim loads the crafted content, the attacker triggers actions in the victim's context that read a subset of accessible data and perform limited unauthorized update/insert/delete operations. No public exploit code is available at time of analysis.

This Month Plan within 30 days. Why: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9).
No patch listed yet 0.2% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Oct 01, 2026

Unauthenticated, network-reachable HTTP requests against Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications Infrastructure (OFSAA) 8.0.7.9, 8.0.8.7, and 8.1.2.5 allow the data accessible through the Platform component to be partially read and partially modified (insert/update/delete), provided the attacker can also persuade a legitimate OFSAA user to perform a human interaction such as following a crafted link. Because the CVSS vector is AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R (score 5.4), the flaw is easy to trigger technically but is gated by that mandatory victim interaction; there is no availability impact and no attacker authentication requirement. No public exploit code has been identified at the time of analysis, this CVE is not listed in CISA KEV, and EPSS is a low 0.24% (13th percentile), so exploitation is currently assessed as a moderate-severity, low-priority concern despite the unauthenticated attack path. The issue was disclosed in Oracle's Critical Patch Update for October 2025.

RemediationAI

Patch available per vendor advisory: Oracle addresses this flaw in the Critical Patch Update for October 2025 (https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2025.html), where the Platform component patch for OFSAA Infrastructure 8.0.7.9, 8.0.8.7, and 8.1.2.5 should be applied; because the input does not specify a distinct downstream build number, confirm the exact post-CPU patch level for your release line through My Oracle Support before closing the item. Until the CPU is applied, the most effective compensating control is to restrict network reachability of the OFSAA HTTP interface, for example by placing it behind a reverse proxy, VPN, or IP allowlist so only trusted user networks can reach the Platform endpoints; the trade-off is reduced remote accessibility for legitimate business users and possible disruption of integrations that call the same interface. Because exploitation requires human interaction (UI:R), reinforcing user awareness against clicking unsolicited links into OFSAA and deploying a WAF rule set that flags cross-site style or unexpected parameter patterns on the OFSAA web path adds useful friction, though WAF coverage is signature-dependent and can be bypassed with novel payloads. Session and CSRF hardening (strict SameSite/HttpOnly cookies, re-authentication for state-changing Platform operations) can also blunt the unauthenticated request path, at the cost of additional user prompts.

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Technical ContextAI · show details

OFSAA Infrastructure (OFSAAI) is Oracle's Java-based foundation layer for the Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications suite, providing shared platform services such as metadata management, security administration, batch scheduling, and the web/HTTP front end that exposes these services to users. The vulnerability is classified as CWE-306 (Missing Authentication for Critical Function), and the accompanying tags point to an authentication-bypass condition: a Platform component function that should require authentication and authorization can be reached without valid credentials, consistent with the PR:N (unauthenticated) portion of the assessed CVSS vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N. The UI:R metric indicates that the request flow still depends on a user other than the attacker taking an action, which is characteristic of a targeted or cross-site style delivery against the OFSAA HTTP interface rather than a fully self-contained exploit. Scope is unchanged (S:U), and the resulting impact is limited to a subset of readable data (C:L) plus unauthorized insert, update, or delete of some records (I:L), with no integrity impact on the whole platform and no availability impact (A:N). Affected instances are precisely identified by the CPEs cpe:2.3:a:oracle:financial_services_analytical_applications_infrastructure:8.0.7.9.0, :8.0.8.7.0, and :8.1.2.5.0.

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Severity by source

Vendor (oracle) PRIMARY 5.4 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
vuln.today AI 5.4 MEDIUM

Network HTTP vector with no attacker auth (PR:N) but mandatory victim interaction (UI:R); partial read and partial data modification (C:L/I:L), no availability impact.

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Primary rating from Vendor (oracle).

CVSS VectorVendor: oracle

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

DescriptionCVE.org

Vulnerability in the Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications Infrastructure product of Oracle Financial Services Applications (component: Platform). Supported versions that are affected are 8.0.7.9, 8.0.8.7 and 8.1.2.5. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications Infrastructure. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications Infrastructure accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications Infrastructure accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 5.4 (Confidentiality and Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N).

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.2%
Top 87% exploitable
Prevalence
Low
niche enterprise financial-services analytics platform, limited deployment footprint
Data Quality
4 sources
Confidence: Medium

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity MEDIUM
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.2%
Patch available No
Active threat No
Deciding rule
MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision· derived
Scheduled
Exploitation· derived
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable· derived
No
Human Impact· derived
Medium

Priority Score

27
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +27
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.

Affected Products (CPE)CVE.org

cpe:2.3:a:oracle:financial_services_analytical_applications_infrastructure:8.0.7.9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:financial_services_analytical_applications_infrastructure:8.0.8.7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:financial_services_analytical_applications_infrastructure:8.1.2.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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