Oracle Retail Xstore Point of Service CVE-2019-2872 Local Security Vulnerability

Description

Oracle Retail Xstore Point of Service is prone to a local security vulnerability. The ‘Point of Sale’ component is affected. This vulnerability affects the following supported versions: 17.0.3, 18.0.1 and 19.0.0

Technologies Affected

• Oracle Retail Xstore Point of Service 17.0.3
• Oracle Retail Xstore Point of Service 18.0.1
• Oracle Retail Xstore Point of Service 19.0.0

Recommendations

Permit local access for trusted individuals only. Where possible, use restricted environments and restricted shells.
Grant local interactive access to affected computers for trusted and accountable users only.

Permit privileged access for trusted individuals only.
Permitting privileged access to known and trusted individuals only may limit the exposure to this and other latent vulnerabilities.

Run all software as a nonprivileged user with minimal access rights.
To limit the impact of latent vulnerabilities, configure servers and other applications to run as a nonadministrative user with minimal access rights.

Updates are available. Please see the references or vendor advisory for more information.