Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessReach exposed Service Bus HTTP endpoint
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ExploitSend crafted malicious HTTP request
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ExecutionTrigger hang or repeatable crash in Core
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ImpactComplete denial of service of bus
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A06:2025 - Insecure Design
ASVS 5.0
V2 - Validation and Business Logic Resource consumption limits
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Impact The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | No special conditions beyond network reachability - remote unauthenticated exploitation over HTTP against the Core component of Oracle Service Bus 12.2.1.4.0 and 14.1.2.0.0, requiring no credentials and no user interaction (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N). The practical limiting factor is network exposure: the attacker must be able to reach the Service Bus HTTP listener, so instances restricted to internal/segmented networks or behind a filtering proxy are materially harder to hit. Impact is confined to availability (complete DOS); there is no path to data disclosure or code execution via this flaw. |
| Impact | This is a genuine availability risk but not a top-tier emergency. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/A:H) is internally consistent with the description: remote, unauthenticated, low-complexity HTTP-based attack causing a complete denial of service, with no confidentiality or integrity impact. The 7.5 score is driven entirely by availability. No EPSS score, no CISA KEV listing, and no public POC were provided in the intelligence, so there is no evidence of active or imminent widespread exploitation; this reads as a high-CVSS issue whose real-world urgency is moderated by the absence of exploitation signals and the DoS-only (non-code-execution, non-data-loss) impact. Note the signal gap explicitly: EPSS and SSVC data are entirely missing, so automatability and observed-exploitation status cannot be assessed - prioritization should lean on the easy remote unauthenticated vector and the criticality of the specific Service Bus deployment rather than on threat-intel that was not supplied. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker with network reachability to an Oracle Service Bus instance sends a specially crafted HTTP request to the exposed Core component, requiring no credentials and no user interaction. The request triggers a hang or repeatable crash, taking the integration bus offline and disrupting all dependent services. No public exploit code was identified in the provided data. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 21, 2026
Unauthenticated attackers able to reach an Oracle Service Bus HTTP listener can hang or repeatedly crash the Core component in versions 12.2.1.4.0 and 14.1.2.0.0, producing a complete denial of service (CVSS 3.1: 7.5, AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H). Triggering it demands no credentials, no user interaction and little complexity, so the real gating factor is network exposure - internet-facing or partner-reachable Service Bus instances are the ones at risk, while segmented internal deployments are materially harder to hit. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis and the CVE is not listed in CISA KEV; Oracle ships fixes through its October 2026 Critical Patch Update.
RemediationAI
Apply the Oracle October 2026 Critical Patch Update for Oracle Service Bus on both supported branches (12.2.1.4.0 and 14.1.2.0.0) - patch status is 'available per vendor advisory', and Oracle's CPU page at https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2026.html carries the exact patch IDs and build numbers for each platform, so pull the specific artifact from there rather than assuming a version string. Because the flaw is a single-request, low-complexity unauthenticated DoS, perimeter controls are only partial compensation: restrict reachability of the Service Bus HTTP listeners to known consumer networks via firewall rules or network segmentation (breaks any legitimate external or partner client that is not re-homed), and front the listener with a reverse proxy or WAF enforcing request-size, header and rate limits (trade-off: aggressive limits can clip legitimately large SOAP/XML payloads and long-running synchronous calls, and rate limiting will not stop a single well-crafted request). Where the Core listener exposes proxy services or transports that are no longer used, disable them to shrink attack surface, accepting that decommissioning is irreversible for dependant integrations. Until patched, monitor for repeated managed-server restarts and hung request threads on Service Bus nodes as the detection signal, and rehearse restart runbooks so an outage window stays short.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
Oracle Service Bus is the mediation and messaging tier of Oracle Fusion Middleware's SOA Suite, sitting between consumers and back-end business services and exposing HTTP(S) transport listeners that drive proxy service pipelines, message transformation, routing and throttling logic. The flaw sits in the 'Core' component - the request-handling runtime rather than a specific transport or console - where a crafted HTTP request is processed without sufficient validation or resource bounding, leaving the service hung or in a crash state that can be re-triggered at will. No CWE was formally mapped in the supplied data, but the observable behavior is characteristic of the resource-exhaustion and unhandled-exception classes (CWE-400 / CWE-248). The assessed vector (S:U, C:N/I:N/A:H) confines impact strictly to availability: nothing in the data describes a path to data disclosure, message tampering, or code execution. Because Service Bus usually fronts downstream systems, a single hung instance cascades into every integration, queue and consumer that depends on it, which is why an availability-only score still reaches 7.5.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Remote unauthenticated HTTP request with no user interaction gives AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N; impact is a complete crash/hang so A:H with C and I at N.
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CVSS VectorVendor: oracle
DescriptionCVE.org
Vulnerability in the Oracle Service Bus product of Oracle Fusion Middleware (component: Core). Supported versions that are affected are 12.2.1.4.0 and 14.1.2.0.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle Service Bus. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle Service Bus. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 7.5 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).
Executive ViewAI
Oracle Service Bus versions 12.2.1.4.0 and 14.1.2.0.0 are affected by CVE-2026-87369, which lets unauthenticated network attackers hang or repeatedly crash the Core component and cause a complete denial of service. The business risk is concentrated in internet-facing or partner-reachable Service Bus deployments, where an outage could disrupt integration-dependent processes; segmented internal deployments are materially harder to exploit. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, so exposure reduction and readiness for Oracle's October 2026 Critical Patch Update are the immediate priorities.
No vendor-released patch identified at time of analysis; interim mitigations include restricting Service Bus HTTP listeners to trusted networks and partner IP ranges, segmenting Service Bus from internet-facing zones, monitoring for hangs or repeated crashes, and preparing to apply Oracle's October 2026 Critical Patch Update.
Threat Intelligence Overview
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
Priority Score
Attack Technique
Denial of Service attacks render applications or systems unavailable by overwhelming resources or triggering failure conditions.
EUVD-2026-106409
GHSA-wc84-634v-3p5m
NVD
CVE.org
EPSS
Exploit-DB