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CVE-2021-2071 Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools

Affected softwareOracle PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools
Affected versions8.56, 8.57, 8.58
Severity8.1 High CVSS 3.1 2 scores
Fixed inOracle Critical Patch Update January 2021
Published20 Jan 2021
Updated17 Jun 2026

Description

Vulnerability in the PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools product of Oracle PeopleSoft (component: Elastic Search). Supported versions that are affected are 8.56, 8.57 and 8.58. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 8.1 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

Exploitation status

No public exploit

No exploit has been reported in the sources we check. Published 5 years ago.

  • CISA KEV not listed
  • VulnCheck KEV not listed
  • CISA Vulnrichment exploitation: none
  • Indexed PoC none indexed
  • EPSS 1.6% chance in 30 days

Waratek protection

No exploit published

Within Waratek scope. In the sources we check, nobody has published exploit code for this CVE or reported it being exploited.

This is a proprietary Oracle product. Oracle's security advisory is the source of public detail for this CVE.

  • Protection none
  • Action not pursued
  • Review automated Upstream data
  • Record active
Decided by Nothing to build a rule from yet: no published exploit, no CISA record of exploitation and no source-level change to read
Finding This CVE affects a known product, but nothing published names a fix and nothing published shows an exploit. That is a statement about the evidence, not about the defect — it does not mean the vulnerability is unimportant or unreachable, only that neither of the two things VRT can act on exists.

CVSS

8.1 HIGH v3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H 2 metrics

We show the highest score from the newest CVSS version. Scores from different versions can't be compared, and the first score listed is sometimes a 0.0 placeholder.

VersionScoreBandVectorAssignerType
CVSS 3.1 8.1 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H secalert_us@oracle.com Secondary published
CVSS 2.0 6.8 none AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P NVD Primary

Affected software and releases

Oracle advisories

AdvisoryTypeQuarterProducts Oracle names in its risk matrix
Oracle Critical Patch Update January 2021 ↗ CPU 2021-Q1 Oracle PeopleSoft / Elastic Search (8.56, 8.57, 8.58)

Oracle components and versions

FamilyComponentVersions, as Oracle lists themRead as
Oracle PeopleSoft Elastic Search 8.56, 8.57, 8.58 8.56 · 8.57 · 8.58

Products and versions

1 product, 3 version entries
SourceVendorProductSchemeAffected versions
nvd oracle peoplesoft enterprise peopletools generic 8.56 · 8.57 · 8.58

References

URLTags
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html Vendor Advisory

Timeline

Published2021-01-20By the CVE Program.
NVD record modified2026-06-17NVD's own last-modified date for this record.