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PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM EUVDEUVD-2026-106293

| CVE-2026-83375 MEDIUM
Information Exposure (CWE-200)
2026-10-20 secalert_us@oracle.com GHSA-cw92-hmpw-v7pr
6.0
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 high-privileged HCM account
  2. Exploit
    Craft malicious Administer Workforce request
  3. Execution
    Induce victim user interaction over HTTP
  4. Impact
    Tamper with or destroy HR data / crash service

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V14 - Data Protection Data exposure prevention
MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques across 2 tactics: Collection, Discovery

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 Administer Workforce component of Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM Human Resources 9.2 specifically. Per the CVSS vector (PR:H), the attacker must already possess a high-privileged PeopleSoft account, so this is an authenticated, privilege-dependent flaw rather than an anonymous remote one. It additionally requires human interaction from a person other than the attacker (UI:R) - a separate victim user must act on attacker-supplied content - and Oracle rates it difficult to exploit (AC:H), indicating specific timing, configuration, or conditions beyond attacker control. These three limiting factors (high privilege, victim interaction, high complexity) sharply narrow realistic exploitation to insider or post-compromise scenarios despite network reachability over HTTP.

Impact

This is a moderate-severity (CVSS 6.0) Oracle-reported vulnerability whose signals point to low real-world urgency despite meaningful technical impact. The CVSS vector is the dominant constraint: although the attack vector is network (AV:N via HTTP), exploitation is explicitly 'difficult' (AC:H), requires an already high-privileged account (PR:H), and depends on human interaction from a victim other than the attacker (UI:R). These four factors stacked together make opportunistic or automated mass exploitation implausible. No EPSS score, KEV listing, or public POC is present in the provided data, so there is no evidence of active exploitation or available exploit code. There is no conflict between the signals here - they consistently indicate a hard-to-reach, insider-or-privilege-dependent issue rather than an internet-facing drive-by. The main caveat is that the impact set is lopsided (C:L but I:H and A:H), meaning a successful attacker can heavily corrupt or destroy HR data and cause a complete DoS; combined with PR:H this reads as a privilege-abuse/post-compromise escalation-of-impact flaw. Overall this should be patched in the normal Oracle CPU cycle rather than treated as an emergency, barring new exploitation intelligence.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An attacker who already holds a high-privileged PeopleSoft HCM account crafts a malicious request or interface element within the Administer Workforce component and induces another user (e.g., an HR administrator) to interact with it over HTTP. Because the attack is technically difficult and conditioned on that victim interaction, success is not guaranteed, but a completed attack lets the attacker modify or delete critical HR data, read a subset of accessible data, or crash the application entirely. No public exploit code was identified at the 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

Authenticated high-privileged users of Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM Human Resources 9.2 can abuse the Administer Workforce component over HTTP to create, delete, or modify critical HR data, read a subset of otherwise restricted records, and force repeatable hangs or crashes of the application. Exploitation is constrained by three factors drawn from the CVSS vector - a high-privileged account (PR:H), interaction by a separate victim user (UI:R), and Oracle's own assessment that the flaw is difficult to exploit (AC:H) - which together point to insider or post-compromise misuse rather than opportunistic remote attack. There is no public exploit code identified at time of analysis and the issue is not in CISA KEV; the vendor-reported severity is 6.0, and independent assessment rates real-world urgency as low.

RemediationAI

Apply the Oracle Critical Patch Update for October 2026 (https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2026.html), which contains Oracle's supported fix for PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM Human Resources 9.2; no exact patched build number is published in the supplied data, so confirm the target bundle level against the CPU advisory's patch availability matrix before deploying. If the CPU cannot be applied immediately, compensating controls should target the three exploitation prerequisites directly, each with trade-offs: restrict network reachability to the HCM Administer Workforce endpoints (place the web tier behind VPN or allow-list access) to cut AV:N exposure, at the cost of blocking legitimate remote HR staff; reduce and audit the population holding high-privilege PeopleSoft roles that could reach the Administer Workforce component (enforcing least privilege, which lowers PR:H feasibility but may disrupt HR administrators' workflows and requires role-mapping review); monitor and alert on anomalous workforce record creation, deletion, or bulk modification and on repeated application crashes or hangs, which raises detection likelihood but generates false positives during legitimate bulk HR processing and mass updates; and apply anti-CSRF/session-hardening measures and user awareness for the required UI:R interaction step, accepting that these reduce but do not eliminate the human-interaction vector. Because no public exploit code is currently identified, patch timing can follow routine quarterly cycles, but the change-management window for the Administer Workforce role model should not be deferred.

Affected VersionsENISA

PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM Human Resources 9.2

Affected Packages

euvd peoplesoft_enterprise_hcm_human_resources no fix

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 1 package in euvd

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Technical ContextAI · show details

The affected technology is Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM Human Resources 9.2, a web-delivered HR management suite in which the Administer Workforce component handles employee job, position, and workforce-transaction records exposed through the PeopleSoft Internet Architecture (HTTP-facing servlets backed by an application server and database). Oracle did not publish a CWE mapping for this issue, so the root cause is characterized only by its effect: a component-level weakness that lets a high-privileged operator drive unauthorized integrity changes (I:H) to critical data, limited confidentiality exposure (C:L), and a denial-of-service condition (A:H) that can hang or repeatedly crash the application. The CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U) describes a network-reachable but high-complexity path in which the attacker must already hold elevated PeopleSoft privileges and must persuade a different user to perform an action on attacker-influenced content before the attack succeeds - a pattern consistent with request forgery, unsafe handling of user-supplied content, or a business-logic flaw in workforce transaction processing rather than a pre-authentication memory-safety bug.

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Severity by source

Vendor (oracle) PRIMARY 6.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H
vuln.today AI 6.0 MEDIUM

Network HTTP reach (AV:N) but Oracle rates it difficult (AC:H), requires a high-privileged account (PR:H) and a separate victim's interaction (UI:R); high integrity/availability, low confidentiality impact.

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

Primary rating from Vendor (oracle).

CVSS VectorVendor: oracle

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
High
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
High
Availability
High

DescriptionCVE.org

Vulnerability in the PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM Human Resources product of Oracle PeopleSoft (component: Administer Workforce). The supported version that is affected is 9.2. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM Human Resources. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM Human Resources accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM Human Resources accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM Human Resources. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 6.0 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H).

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.2%
Top 85% exploitable
Prevalence
Medium
widely used enterprise HR suite but confined to large organizations
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

30
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +30
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security.

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