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Plain-English summary
CVE-2021-2455 affects Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM Shared Components 9.2, specifically Person Search. A highly privileged user with HTTP network access could gain unauthorized read and change access to critical PeopleSoft HCM data. The issue is serious for HR data integrity and confidentiality, but the privilege requirement lowers broad internet-scale urgency.
Executive priority
Treat as a moderate-priority HR data risk. It can affect critical employee data confidentiality and integrity, but exploitation requires high PeopleSoft privileges. Prioritize remediation for externally reachable, shared administrative, or weakly governed PeopleSoft environments.
Technical view
Oracle describes an easily exploitable PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM Shared Components Person Search vulnerability. The CVSS 3.1 vector is AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N, scoring 6.5. Impact is high confidentiality and integrity loss, with no availability impact stated. Supported affected version is 9.2.
Likely exposure
Exposure is most likely in organizations running Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM Shared Components 9.2 where privileged users can reach Person Search over HTTP. Public exposure is not required by the source; attacker privilege level is high.
Exploitation context
The source bundle does not show CISA KEV listing or cited evidence of active exploitation. Oracle says exploitation is easy once a high-privileged attacker has HTTP network access. No exploit method is provided here.
Researcher notes
Available evidence is limited to Oracle/CVE metadata. The key exposure conditions are PeopleSoft HCM Shared Components 9.2, Person Search, HTTP network access, and high attacker privileges. No CWE, exploit details, or active exploitation evidence is included in the provided sources.
Mitigation direction
- Check Oracle July 2021 CPU guidance for the PeopleSoft HCM 9.2 fix status.
- Apply relevant Oracle-supported PeopleSoft security updates after environment testing.
- Restrict PeopleSoft HCM HTTP access to trusted administrative and application networks.
- Review and reduce high-privilege PeopleSoft accounts where operationally possible.
- Monitor critical HCM data creation, deletion, modification, and access events.
Validation and detection
- Inventory PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM Shared Components deployments and confirm version 9.2 presence.
- Determine whether the Person Search component is enabled or reachable over HTTP.
- Verify whether Oracle July 2021 CPU remediation has been applied.
- Review privileged PeopleSoft account assignments and recent administrative activity.
- Check audit logs for unusual critical HCM data reads or modifications.
Public sources used
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Open ATT&CK lookup- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS
- 6.5 (3.1)
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N1.25.2Primary CVE scoreVulnerability scoring details
Base CVSS 3.1 score
6.5MediumVector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2021.htmlCVE reference · x_refsource_MISC
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