The company said that an unknown group of cybercriminals in real attacks is already actively exploiting this security problem.
The vulnerability received an identifier CVE-2019-27296, and, according to the CVSS scale, it received 9.8 points out of 10.“Due to the severity of this vulnerability, Oracle strongly recommends customers to apply updates as soon as possible”, — warn in Oracle.
The breach is described as a deserialization problem in Oracle WebLogic Server Web Services via XMLDecoder, allowing a remote unauthorized attacker to execute arbitrary code on the victim’s server. This results in complete control over the attacked server.
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“The vulnerability of remote code execution can be exploited without having to go through the authentication process. Thus, an attacker can use a security problem without having username or password,” – said in the Oracle notification.
Company also noted connection of this vulnerability with a previously unmentioned problem of deserialization under the identifier CVE-2019-2725. She was also present at Oracle WebLogic Server, but was patched in April of this year.
Source: https://www.oracle.com
