CVE-2016-3473

high

Published 2016-10-25 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

7.7

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.7

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the BI Publisher (formerly XML Publisher) component in Oracle Fusion Middleware 11.1.1.7.0, 11.1.1.9.0, and 12.2.1.0.0 allows remote authenticated users to affect confidentiality via unknown vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

85%

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-40590 webapps xml

Jakub Palaczynski · 2016-10-20

Oracle BI Publisher 11.1.1.6.0/11.1.1.7.0/11.1.1.9.0/12.2.1.0.0 - XML External Entity Injection

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
oracle	business_intelligence_publisher	`11.1.1.7.0`
oracle	business_intelligence_publisher	`11.1.1.9.0`
oracle	business_intelligence_publisher	`12.2.1.0.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-200

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

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