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CVE-2020-2940: Vulnerability in the Oracle Financial Services Profitability Management product of Oracle Financial Service...

Vulnerability in the Oracle Financial Services Profitability Management product of Oracle Financial Services Applications (component: User Interface). Supported versions that are affected are 8.0.6 and 8.0.7. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle Financial Services Profitability Management. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all Oracle Financial Services Profitability Management accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle Financial Services Profitability Management accessible data. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 7.1 (Confidentiality and Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N).

HighCVSS 7.1Not KEV-listedUpdated
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Plain-English summary

This vulnerability affects Oracle Financial Services Profitability Management 8.0.6 and 8.0.7. A low-privileged user with HTTP network access could compromise the application’s user interface, potentially changing or deleting critical business data and reading some accessible data. The main business risk is integrity loss in financial profitability data.

Executive priority

Treat as high priority if the affected Oracle application supports financial reporting, profitability analytics, or regulated business processes. The risk is less about outage and more about unauthorized manipulation of important financial data.

Technical view

CVE-2020-2940 is a CVSS 7.1 user interface vulnerability in Oracle Financial Services Profitability Management. The vector is network exploitable over HTTP, low complexity, low privileges required, and no user interaction. Sources report high integrity impact and low confidentiality impact, with no availability impact listed.

Likely exposure

Exposure appears limited to organizations running Oracle Financial Services Profitability Management versions 8.0.6 or 8.0.7 with HTTP access available to low-privileged users. The source bundle does not identify other affected Oracle products or versions.

Exploitation context

The sources do not report active exploitation, and the CVE is not listed as KEV in the provided bundle. The issue is still operationally serious because exploitation is described as easy and only requires low privileges plus network access over HTTP.

Researcher notes

No CWE is provided in the source bundle. Evidence supports affected versions, CVSS vector, access conditions, and impact, but does not provide root-cause details, exploit evidence, or exact patch identifiers beyond Oracle’s April 2020 CPU reference.

Mitigation direction

  • Check Oracle April 2020 CPU guidance for the affected product.
  • Apply the vendor-provided update or remediation for affected versions.
  • Restrict HTTP access to trusted users and networks where feasible.
  • Review roles for low-privileged users with application access.
  • Prioritize integrity monitoring for critical profitability data.

Validation and detection

  • Inventory Oracle Financial Services Profitability Management versions in use.
  • Confirm whether versions 8.0.6 or 8.0.7 are present.
  • Verify Oracle April 2020 CPU remediation status.
  • Review logs for unusual create, delete, or modify activity.
  • Confirm low-privileged users cannot alter critical data outside authorization.
Prepared
Confidence
medium
Sources
3

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Potential ATT&CK relevance

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Vulnerability profileCVE Program record
Severity
High
CVSS
7.1 (3.0)
Known Exploited
No
Published

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N

Official CVE source material

CNA and ADP enrichment extracted from CVE v5

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1CVSS vectors
0Timeline events
0ADP providers
2Source links

CVSS vector scores

1 official score

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ScoreVersionSeverityVectorExploitImpactSource
7.1CVSS 3.0HighCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N2.84.2Primary CVE score

Vulnerability scoring details

Base CVSS 3.0 score

7.1High
CVSS 3.0 vector shape for CVE-2020-2940Attack VectorAttack ComplexityPrivileges RequiredUser InteractionScopeConfidentiality ImpactIntegrity ImpactAvailability Impact

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
NetworkAdjacentLocalPhysical
Attack Complexity
LowHigh
Privileges Required
NoneLowHigh
User Interaction
NoneRequired
Scope
ChangedUnchanged
Confidentiality Impact
HighLowNone
Integrity Impact
HighLowNone
Availability Impact
HighLowNone

Source materials

Affected products

Products and packages named in the record

VendorProductVersion / packageStatus
Oracle CorporationFinancial Services Profitability Management8.0.6, 8.0.7Listed
Weakness

CWE details

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