vulnerability

Oracle Database: Critical Patch Update - October 2023 (CVE-2023-22073)

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Oct 17, 2023
Added
Oct 18, 2023
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

Vulnerability in the Oracle Notification Server component of Oracle Database Server. Supported versions that are affected are 19.3-19.20 and 21.3-21.11. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with access to the physical communication segment attached to the hardware where the Oracle Notification Server executes to compromise Oracle Notification Server. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle Notification Server accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 4.3 (Confidentiality impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N).

Solution

oracle-apply-oct-2023-cpu
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