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Oracle Commerce Experience Manager CVE-2026-70999

| EUVDEUVD-2026-61946 HIGH
Improper Access Control (CWE-284)
2026-08-18 secalert_us@oracle.com GHSA-97hp-cvm6-j437
8.1
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
    Obtain low-privilege Oracle Commerce account
  2. Delivery
    Authenticate to Experience Manager via HTTP
  3. Exploit
    Send crafted HTTP request bypassing authorization
  4. Execution
    Read all accessible commerce data
  5. Impact
    Modify or delete critical commerce records

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

Exploitation requires a valid low-privileged authenticated session with network access to the Oracle Commerce Experience Manager HTTP interface (PR:L per CVSS vector). The affected version is specifically 11.4.0. No user interaction from a victim is required (UI:N), and attack complexity is low (AC:L), meaning no special timing, race conditions, or additional preconditions are needed beyond authentication. Exploitation is bounded by the need for at least one valid low-privilege account - unauthenticated access is not confirmed from available data, despite the 'Authentication Bypass' tag, which may refer to intra-application authorization bypass rather than pre-authentication bypass. Scope is unchanged (S:U), meaning impact is contained to the Oracle Commerce application itself and does not extend to the underlying OS or adjacent systems.

Impact

The CVSS 3.1 score of 8.1 (High) is well-supported by the vector: network-accessible, low attack complexity, no user interaction, and dual high-severity impacts to confidentiality and integrity. The PR:L requirement is the sole friction point - an attacker must hold at least one valid low-privileged account. In enterprise Oracle Commerce deployments, such accounts may be broadly distributed (staff, API service accounts, partners). No EPSS score was provided, and there is no KEV listing or known POC at time of analysis, so real-world exploitation probability cannot be quantified from available signals. The 'Authentication Bypass' tag introduces ambiguity: if the bypass allows unauthenticated access despite the PR:L vector, actual risk may be higher than the CVSS score reflects - this discrepancy should be verified with Oracle's advisory. The absence of an availability impact (A:N) means the flaw is data-focused rather than disruptive.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An attacker with a valid low-privileged Oracle Commerce account - such as a staff member, partner portal user, or compromised service account - sends specially crafted HTTP requests to the Experience Manager component to bypass authorization controls. This grants the attacker read access to all commerce data (customer records, pricing, catalog configurations) and write access to modify or delete critical commerce assets. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis.

This Week Schedule remediation this week. Why: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9).
No patch listed yet 0.4% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Aug 18, 2026

Oracle Commerce Guided Search and Experience Manager 11.4.0 exposes a high-severity authorization bypass over HTTP that allows any low-privileged, network-accessible attacker to achieve full confidentiality and integrity compromise of commerce data. The 'Authentication Bypass' tag combined with a PR:L vector indicates that authenticated users with minimal permissions can escalate access to read or manipulate all data accessible to the application, including potentially sensitive customer, catalog, and configuration data. No public exploit or CISA KEV listing has been identified at time of analysis, but Oracle has released a fix through the August 2026 Critical Patch Update.

RemediationAI

Apply Oracle's August 2026 Critical Patch Update (CPU), which addresses this vulnerability for Oracle Commerce Guided Search / Experience Manager 11.4.0. The advisory is published at https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cspuaug2026.html. Oracle CPUs are cumulative, so applying the August 2026 CPU is the primary and recommended remediation. No exact patched version number was disclosed in the available data beyond the CPU designation. As a compensating control prior to patching, restrict HTTP access to the Experience Manager component to trusted internal networks or VPN-only ingress to reduce the attack surface, noting that this limits administrative accessibility. Additionally, audit and minimize low-privileged account provisioning within the platform to reduce the pool of potential threat actors who meet the PR:L prerequisite. An exact patched release version was not independently confirmed from the available references.

Affected VersionsENISA

Oracle Commerce Guided Search / Oracle Commerce Experience Manager 11.4.0

Affected Packages

euvd oracle_commerce_guided_search_oracle_commerce_experience_manager no fix

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 1 package in euvd

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Technical ContextAI · show details

Oracle Commerce Guided Search and Experience Manager are Oracle's enterprise e-commerce platform components responsible for product search personalization, merchandising rules, and content experience delivery. The vulnerability is tagged 'Authentication Bypass' by the reporter (secalert_us@oracle.com), suggesting that the underlying flaw involves insufficient authorization enforcement within the Experience Manager component, allowing privilege escalation beyond what a low-privileged user should be granted. No CWE has been formally assigned, which limits root-cause classification, but the CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N) is consistent with improper access control or broken object-level authorization at an HTTP API layer. The affected version is exclusively 11.4.0 as confirmed by Oracle and the EUVD (EUVD-2026-61946).

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Severity by source

Vendor (oracle) PRIMARY 8.1 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
vuln.today AI 8.1 HIGH

Network-accessible HTTP exploitation requiring only low privileges; dual high impact to confidentiality and integrity; no availability impact per description.

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

Primary rating from Vendor (oracle).

CVSS VectorVendor: oracle

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

DescriptionCVE.org

Vulnerability in the Oracle Commerce Guided Search / Oracle Commerce Experience Manager product of Oracle Commerce (component: Experience Manager). The supported version that is affected is 11.4.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle Commerce Guided Search / Oracle Commerce Experience Manager. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all Oracle Commerce Guided Search / Oracle Commerce Experience Manager accessible data as well as unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle Commerce Guided Search / Oracle Commerce Experience Manager accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 8.1 (Confidentiality and Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N).

Executive ViewAI

Why It Matters

Oracle Commerce Guided Search and Experience Manager 11.4.0 contains an authorization bypass allowing authenticated users with low-level privileges to gain unrestricted access to view and modify all customer and transaction data without proper authorization controls. This directly threatens data confidentiality, transaction integrity, and regulatory compliance obligations for affected organizations. Immediate vendor patch deployment is required to close this access vulnerability.

Business Impact: High
Compensating Controls

Apply vendor patch.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.4%
Top 70% exploitable
Prevalence
Medium
enterprise e-commerce platform, deployed by mid-to-large Oracle Commerce customers
Data Quality
5 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 HIGH
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.4%
Patch available No
Active threat No
Deciding rule
HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9)
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
Scheduled
Exploitation
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable
No
Human Impact
High
Technical Impact
Total

Priority Score

40
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +40
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.

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