What this actually is.
Technical background, root cause, and affected surface.
Vulnerability in the Oracle Help Technologies product of Oracle Fusion Middleware (component: Web UIX). Supported versions that are affected are 12.2.1.3.0 and 12.2.1.4.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle Help Technologies.
- Vendor
- Oracle
- Affected Product
- Oracle
- CVE
- CVE-2020-14723
- Securin ID
- 2020-CSW-01-1037
- Status
- Fixed
- Date
- January 11, 2020
- Severity
- High
- CVSS Score
- 8.2
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
- CWE
- CWE-285
From one request
to root shell.
Reproduced in a sandboxed environment. Requires only LAN or WiFi adjacency.
The following vulnerability was tested on Oracle Web content Management version 12.2.1.3.0.
What an attacker does to you.
Post-exploitation outcomes mapped to CVSS impact metrics.
Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle Help Technologies accessible data as well as unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Oracle Help Technologies accessible data.
Fix it. In this order.
A runbook, not a checklist. Sequence matters — assume compromise before you act.
Download and apply the relevant patches from the vendor:
disclose@securin.ioVendors moved in days.
Attackers in hours.
Reconstructed from vendor advisories, CISA bulletins, and Securin research records.
Reported to Vendor
Vendor Responded
CVE Assigned
Vendor Released Fixed
Disclosed 185 days after discovery
Cite, verify, go deeper.
Primary sources — NVD, CISA KEV, and machine-readable IoC feed.