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Oracle Helidon EUVDEUVD-2026-105983

| CVE-2026-101575 MEDIUM
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400)
2026-10-20 secalert_us@oracle.com GHSA-mgg6-4p85-8324
6.5
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
    Reach exposed Helidon LRA HTTP endpoint
  2. Delivery
    Send crafted LRA coordination requests
  3. Exploit
    Win high-complexity trigger condition
  4. Execution
    Perform limited unauthorized data read/modify and partial DoS
  5. Impact
    Impact spills into adjacent integrated products (scope change)

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
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

Exploitation targets the Helidon LRA (Long Running Actions / MicroProfile LRA saga-coordination) component and requires that the Helidon service expose its LRA HTTP endpoints to the attacker over the network; the vulnerability affects Helidon 4.0.0 through 4.5.5. No authentication (PR:N) and no user interaction (UI:N) are required. The primary limiting factor is high attack complexity (AC:H): successful exploitation depends on specific conditions or state the attacker must induce or race, so it is not a straightforward single-request exploit. Impact is bounded to partial (Low) read, partial write/delete, and partial denial of service of Helidon-accessible data, but the scope change (S:C) means a successful attack may propagate impact to additional integrated products beyond Helidon itself.

Impact

This is a genuine but mid-tier priority, not a drop-everything emergency. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C) describes an unauthenticated, network-reachable flaw over HTTP with a scope change, which inflates the base score to 6.5 despite only Low (partial) confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. The single most important mitigating signal is AC:H - high attack complexity means exploitation depends on conditions outside the attacker's control (timing, specific state, or difficult-to-win race/configuration conditions), which materially lowers real-world exploitability. No EPSS score, no CISA KEV listing, and no public POC were provided, so there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and no evidence of active or automatable exploitation. SSVC framing would most likely land at Exploitation=none, Automatable=no (AC:H makes reliable automation unlikely), Technical Impact=partial - supporting a 'Track' rather than 'Act' disposition. One signal to verify: the description and vector both agree on unauthenticated network access (PR:N), so there is no internal conflict, but the scope-change claim ('attacks may significantly impact additional products') is asserted only by the Oracle CPU advisory and is not independently corroborated here.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

A remote, unauthenticated attacker sends specially crafted HTTP requests to a Helidon service exposing the LRA (Long Running Actions) coordinator/participant endpoints. By winning a difficult-to-trigger condition (AC:H), the attacker gains limited unauthorized read plus limited insert/update/delete access to some Helidon-accessible data and can cause a partial denial of service; the scope change means impact may extend to adjacent integrated products. No public proof-of-concept exploit is known at time of analysis.

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

A mid-tier, difficult-to-exploit flaw in Oracle Helidon 4.0.0 through 4.5.5 exposes the LRA (Long Running Actions / MicroProfile LRA saga-coordination) HTTP endpoints to unauthenticated remote attackers, allowing partial reads, unauthorized update/insert/delete of some Helidon-accessible data, and partial denial of service. Exploitation is not a straightforward single request - successful attacks hinge on high-complexity conditions the attacker must induce or race (AC:H), and the scope change flag means impact can propagate to other products integrated with the Helidon service. No public exploit code or confirmed active exploitation was identified at time of analysis, though Oracle's October 2026 CPU advisory addresses the issue; the primary pressure point is availability and data integrity for internet-facing Helidon LRA deployments.

RemediationAI

Apply the October 2026 Oracle Critical Patch Update - the vendor-released fix is documented in the CPU advisory at https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2026.html; upgrade Helidon to the CPU-patched release for the 4.x line rather than any version within the 4.0.0-4.5.5 range, and verify the resulting version against the advisory's patch table. If immediate upgrade is not possible, the most effective compensating control is to stop exposing LRA coordinator and participant HTTP endpoints to untrusted networks: restrict them behind an authenticated gateway or mTLS, or bind them to internal interfaces and firewall them off from the internet - the trade-off is that legitimate cross-service saga callbacks from external or partner systems will break until those callers are placed on the allowed path. Where LRA functionality is not actually in use, disabling the LRA extension or excluding its endpoints from the deployed application reduces exposure to near zero at the cost of losing saga coordination. Additionally, because scope change (S:C) allows impact to reach other integrated products, review services participating in the same LRA transactions for anomalous data modifications and monitor for partial-denial-of-service symptoms on Helidon instances, since generic rate limiting or WAF rules will not reliably block a high-complexity race-based exploit.

Affected VersionsENISA

Helidon 4.0.0 ≤4.5.5

Affected Packages

euvd helidon no fix

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 1 package in euvd

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Technical ContextAI · show details

Helidon is Oracle's set of Java libraries for writing microservices, and the affected component is LRA - the MicroProfile Long Running Actions implementation that provides saga-style distributed transaction coordination over HTTP. LRA participants and coordinators communicate through HTTP callbacks and REST endpoints, so any Helidon service that exposes LRA coordinator or participant endpoints online presents the relevant attack surface. The defect allows an unauthenticated network attacker who can reach those LRA endpoints to influence coordination state: reading a limited subset of Helidon-accessible data, performing unauthorized updates/inserts/deletes on some of it, and degrading availability. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L, 6.5) indicates no credentials and no user interaction are needed, but the high attack complexity reflects a narrow race or prerequisite state the attacker must engineer - the vulnerability is not trivially triggered. The scope-change component means a compromise of the Helidon LRA layer can affect resources or components managed outside Helidon's own security authority, such as downstream services participating in the same saga. No CWE was assigned in the available data, so the root-cause class must be inferred from the LRA coordination behavior rather than a stated weakness category.

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Severity by source

Vendor (oracle) PRIMARY 6.5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
vuln.today AI 6.5 MEDIUM

Unauthenticated HTTP access gives AV:N/PR:N/UI:N; Oracle's 'difficult to exploit' maps to AC:H; cross-product impact gives S:C; all impacts are partial, so C:L/I:L/A:L.

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

Primary rating from Vendor (oracle).

CVSS VectorVendor: oracle

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

DescriptionCVE.org

Vulnerability in the Helidon product of Oracle Fusion Middleware (component: LRA). Supported versions that are affected are 4.0.0-4.5.5. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Helidon. While the vulnerability is in Helidon, 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 Helidon accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of Helidon accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Helidon. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 6.5 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L).

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.2%
Top 91% exploitable
Prevalence
Low
Oracle Helidon is a niche Java microservices framework, far less deployed than Spring
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

32
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +32
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

Denial of Service attacks render applications or systems unavailable by overwhelming resources or triggering failure conditions.

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