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Oracle Marketing CVE-2026-101639

| EUVDEUVD-2026-106047 MEDIUM
Improper Access Control (CWE-284)
2026-10-20 secalert_us@oracle.com GHSA-292p-rq8j-c9gv
5.4
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: oracle
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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Authenticate with low-privileged Marketing account
  2. Delivery
    Inject crafted payload via Audience component
  3. Exploit
    Lure privileged user to render content
  4. Execution
    Payload executes in victim's session
  5. Impact
    Alter and read cross-product EBS data

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Access control enforcement
MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique across 1 tactic: Defense Evasion

The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up.

Exploitation Conditions

Requires a valid low-privileged Oracle Marketing account (PR:L) on Oracle E-Business Suite versions 12.2.3 through 12.2.15, reachable over HTTP (AV:N). Exploitation is NOT self-contained: it requires human interaction from a different user (UI:R) - typically a victim who views or processes the attacker-supplied content in the Audience component - which strongly indicates a stored/reflected injection flaw. Limiting factors that reduce realistic risk: the attacker must already be authenticated, a separate privileged victim must interact with the malicious content, and only the specified 12.2.x release range is affected; impact is partial (limited read plus limited insert/update/delete, no availability impact). The compensating aggravator is the scope change, meaning successful exploitation can affect Oracle products beyond Marketing itself.

Impact

This is a moderate-severity, context-dependent issue rather than a drop-everything priority. The CVSS 3.1 base score of 5.4 is driven by a network attack vector (AV:N) with low complexity (AC:L) but is meaningfully constrained by two factors: the attacker needs an existing low-privileged account (PR:L) and successful attacks require human interaction from a victim other than the attacker (UI:R). The impact is limited (C:L/I:L, A:N), but the scope change (S:C) is the notable signal - a flaw in the Oracle Marketing 'Audience' component can spill over to affect additional Oracle E-Business Suite products, which is why even limited confidentiality/integrity impacts yield a medium score. No EPSS score, no CISA KEV listing, and no public exploit were provided in the input, so exploitation likelihood signals are absent rather than reassuring. SSVC-style reading: exploitation status is 'none' (no public exploit identified), the attack is NOT automatable (requires authentication plus social-engineering a victim), and technical impact is 'partial'. CONFLICT TO NOTE: the input Tags include 'Authentication Bypass', but the CVSS vector explicitly requires privileges (PR:L) and the description describes authorized-but-limited read/write access and victim interaction - this is consistent with a web injection flaw (e.g., stored/reflected XSS), not an authentication bypass. Treat the 'Authentication Bypass' tag as suspect and verify against the Oracle October 2026 CPU advisory.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An attacker with a low-privileged Oracle Marketing account submits crafted content (for example into an Audience-related field) that is later rendered to a higher-privileged user. When that victim views the content in their session, the injected payload executes in their context, allowing limited unauthorized read of some Marketing data and insert/update/delete of a subset of data, with effects reaching additional E-Business Suite products due to the scope change. No public exploit code was identified in the provided data, and the required victim interaction plus valid credentials raise the practical bar.

This Month Plan within 30 days. Why: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9).
No patch listed yet 0.2% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Oct 21, 2026

Content-injection-style weakness in the Audience component of Oracle Marketing (Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2.3 through 12.2.15) allows a low-privileged user with network access over HTTP to plant attacker-controlled content that a second, different user must interact with, resulting in unauthorized read plus limited insert, update, or delete access to Marketing data. Because the CVSS vector carries a scope change (S:C), a successful attack can also affect additional Oracle products beyond Marketing itself, although confidentiality and integrity impact remain partial and there is no availability impact. Exploitation is not self-contained - it demands a valid low-privileged Marketing account and a separate victim's interaction - and no public exploit identified at time of analysis; this is a moderate-severity, context-dependent issue rather than a drop-everything priority.

RemediationAI

Patch available per vendor advisory: Oracle addresses this in its October 2026 Critical Patch Update (https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2026.html), and E-Business Suite 12.2.3-12.2.15 installations should apply the CPU's Oracle Marketing patches through the standard adop/Online Patching cycle during the next maintenance window; the provided data does not enumerate a specific patched build number, so confirm the exact minimum version against the CPU advisory's per-product table before closing remediation. Where patching must be deferred, actionable compensating controls are: restrict network reachability of the E-Business Suite Marketing HTTP endpoints to trusted internal ranges or VPN-only access via reverse-proxy ACLs (side effect: remote marketing staff lose direct access and need VPN or a published gateway); tighten Marketing responsibility assignments so only users who genuinely need to create or edit audiences retain those roles, since low-privileged accounts are the attacker prerequisite (side effect: reduced marketing workflow flexibility and possible additional administrative overhead); and deploy WAF or content-sanitization rules targeting HTML/script injection in audience and campaign content (side effect: imperfect coverage of multi-step, interaction-dependent flows and risk of false positives blocking legitimate rich content). Because the flaw requires a second user to interact with attacker-supplied content, also monitor for anomalous audience record changes and unexpected cross-user content propagation, and validate that any stored content rendered to higher-privileged users is sanitized or escaped.

Affected VersionsENISA

Oracle Marketing 12.2.3 ≤12.2.15

Affected Packages

euvd oracle_marketing no fix

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 1 package in euvd

Checking this CVE against your own stacks and servers is part of the Basic plan and up.

Technical ContextAI · show details

The affected technology is Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2.x, specifically the Oracle Marketing application module (the CRM/marketing suite component that manages campaigns, customer lists, and segmentation) and within it the Audience component, which stores and renders audience/segmentation records that are surfaced to other users in the web UI. The published vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N describes a remotely reachable (AV:N), low-complexity (AC:L) flaw that an attacker holding only a low-privileged account (PR:L) can trigger, but which requires human interaction by a person other than the attacker (UI:R) - combined with the scope change (S:C), this pattern is characteristic of an injection-type flaw where attacker-supplied content is persisted or reflected by the Audience component and later processed in a more privileged victim's session, crossing a security-authority boundary and potentially touching other Oracle products. Oracle did not assign a CWE for this entry (CWE: N/A), so the root-cause class is inferred from the vector rather than formally documented. Impacts are bounded: low confidentiality (C:L) and low integrity (C/I:L) with no availability effect (A:N), meaning limited read plus limited insert/update/delete against Marketing-accessible data rather than full compromise of the E-Business Suite instance. Oracle's own security-alert channel (secalert_us@oracle.com) reported the issue, and third-party tagging (Authentication Bypass, Oracle) aligns with the trust-boundary-crossing behavior implied by the scope change, though the assessed prerequisites confirm authentication is still required.

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Severity by source

Vendor (oracle) PRIMARY 5.4 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
vuln.today AI 5.4 MEDIUM

Network-reachable but needs a low-privileged account (PR:L) and a victim to interact (UI:R); injection in one component affects others (S:C) with limited C/I and no availability impact.

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

Primary rating from Vendor (oracle).

CVSS VectorVendor: oracle

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

DescriptionCVE.org

Vulnerability in the Oracle Marketing product of Oracle E-Business Suite (component: Audience). Supported versions that are affected are 12.2.3-12.2.15. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle Marketing. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker and while the vulnerability is in Oracle Marketing, attacks may significantly impact additional products (scope change). Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Oracle Marketing accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle Marketing accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 5.4 (Confidentiality and Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N).

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.2%
Top 87% exploitable
Prevalence
Medium
Oracle Marketing is one EBS module, not deployed in every EBS environment
Data Quality
4 sources
Confidence: Medium

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity MEDIUM
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.2%
Patch available No
Active threat No
Deciding rule
MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision· derived
Scheduled
Exploitation· derived
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable· derived
No
Human Impact· derived
Medium

Priority Score

27
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +27
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

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