CVE-2016-3542

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Published 2016-07-21 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

6.5

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.5

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle Knowledge Management component in Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1.1, 12.1.2, 12.1.3, 12.2.3, 12.2.4, and 12.2.5 allows remote administrators to affect confidentiality and integrity via unknown vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-44041 webapps multiple

SecuriTeam · 2017-03-17

Oracle Knowledge Management 12.1.1 < 12.2.5 - XML External Entity Leading To Remote Code Execution

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
oracle	knowledge_management	`12.1.1`
oracle	knowledge_management	`12.1.2`
oracle	knowledge_management	`12.1.3`
oracle	knowledge_management	`12.2.3`
oracle	knowledge_management	`12.2.4`
oracle	knowledge_management	`12.2.5`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.