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Oracle Database: Critical Patch Update - October 2020 (CVE-2020-14736)

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Published

Oct 20, 2020

Added

Oct 22, 2020

Modified

Mar 27, 2026

Description

Vulnerability in the Database Vault component of Oracle Database Server. Supported versions that are affected are 11.2.0.4, 12.1.0.2 and 12.2.0.1. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker having Create Public Synonym privilege with network access via Oracle Net to compromise Database Vault. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Database Vault accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of Database Vault accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 3.8 (Confidentiality and Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N).

Solution

oracle-apply-oct-2020-cpu

References

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