CVE-2020-2981: 
Berkeley DB vulnerability analysis and mitigation

CVE-2020-2981 is a security vulnerability discovered in the Data Store component of Oracle Berkeley DB, affecting versions prior to 18.1.40. The vulnerability was disclosed in Oracle's July 2020 Critical Patch Update (Oracle CPU).

This vulnerability is classified as difficult to exploit and requires an unauthenticated attacker with logon access to the infrastructure where Data Store executes. The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS 3.1 Base Score of 7.0, indicating high severity, with potential impacts on Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability. The CVSS Vector is (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H) (Oracle CPU).

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can result in complete takeover of the Data Store component. The high CVSS score indicates that successful attacks can lead to significant compromise of the system's confidentiality, integrity, and availability (Oracle CPU).

Oracle has released a security patch for this vulnerability in their July 2020 Critical Patch Update. Users should upgrade to Oracle Berkeley DB version 18.1.40 or later to address this vulnerability. Oracle strongly recommends that customers apply Critical Patch Update security patches as soon as possible (Oracle CPU).