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Oracle WebCenter Content EUVDEUVD-2026-47018

| CVE-2026-60657 HIGH
Improper Access Control (CWE-284)
2026-07-21 secalert_us@oracle.com GHSA-2f4m-v4jj-hpx5
7.7
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-privilege WebCenter account
  2. Delivery
    Craft malicious content payload
  3. Exploit
    Lure privileged user to interact (UI)
  4. Execution
    Execute in victim's authenticated context
  5. Persist
    Cross scope boundary to linked products
  6. Impact
    Read or modify critical 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

Exploitation requires the attacker to hold at least a low-privilege authenticated account on Oracle WebCenter Content (PR:L, per CVSS vector) with network HTTP reachability to the Content Server component. It further requires human interaction from a person other than the attacker (UI:R) - a legitimate user must open or interact with attacker-supplied content for the attack to succeed. Limiting factors: high attack complexity (AC:H) implies conditions outside the attacker's control must align; only versions 12.2.1.4.0 and 14.1.2.0.0 are named as affected; and the third-party-interaction requirement makes untargeted mass exploitation impractical. Availability is not impacted (A:N).

Impact

The signals are mixed and indicate a real but conditional risk rather than a mass-exploitation emergency. CVSS is 7.7 (High), but the vector explicitly encodes difficult exploitation (AC:H) and mandatory human interaction from a third party (UI:R), which sharply limits opportunistic use. The attacker needs only low privileges (PR:L) and network HTTP access (AV:N), and the scope change (S:C) plus C:H/I:H impacts raise the ceiling of damage. No EPSS score, no CISA KEV listing, and no POC are present in the provided data, so there is no evidence of active or automatable exploitation. Availability is unaffected (A:N). Net: patch within the normal Oracle CPU cycle, prioritizing internet-reachable or multi-tenant WebCenter deployments, but this is not a drop-everything issue absent exploitation evidence. Oracle CPU advisories intentionally omit technical detail, so the exact attack mechanism cannot be independently verified from this input.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

A low-privileged attacker with a valid WebCenter Content account crafts malicious content and lures a higher-privileged user into opening or interacting with it over HTTP; the interaction executes in the victim's authenticated context, letting the attacker read or modify critical content and pivot across the scope boundary into other Fusion Middleware products. The high attack complexity (AC:H) and required human interaction (UI:R) mean the attacker must reliably social-engineer a specific victim, and no public POC is currently known.

This Week Schedule remediation this week. Why: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9).
No patch listed yet 0.3% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Jul 22, 2026

Cross-context data compromise in Oracle WebCenter Content (Content Server component) versions 12.2.1.4.0 and 14.1.2.0.0 lets a low-privileged, network-reachable attacker read and alter critical data after tricking a legitimate user into interacting with malicious content. Because the flaw crosses a security scope boundary (S:C), successful attacks can significantly impact products beyond WebCenter Content itself. Disclosed in Oracle's July 2026 Critical Patch Update with a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.7; no public exploit identified at time of analysis.

RemediationAI

Apply the fixes delivered in Oracle's July 2026 Critical Patch Update (https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2026.html) - Patch available per vendor advisory; the CPU does not publish a single discrete fix-version string in this input, so consult the CPU patch matrix for the exact patch or bundle matching your 12.2.1.4.0 or 14.1.2.0.0 installation and apply it. Because exploitation requires a victim to interact with attacker-supplied content, compensating controls while patching include restricting network exposure of the Content Server HTTP interface to trusted networks or placing it behind a VPN/reverse proxy, tightening account provisioning so untrusted parties cannot obtain the low-privilege access the attack needs, and enabling stricter content-handling and response-header policies on the WebCenter front end to blunt client-side injection (trade-off: proxy or header changes may break legitimate document-rendering integrations and require regression testing). User-awareness measures reduce the UI:R trigger but do not eliminate the flaw.

Affected VersionsENISA

Oracle WebCenter Content 14.1.2.0.0
Oracle WebCenter Content 12.2.1.4.0

Affected Packages

euvd oracle_webcenter_content 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

Oracle WebCenter Content (formerly Universal Content Management/Stellent) is an enterprise content and document management platform; the affected Content Server component handles ingestion, storage, retrieval, and rendering of managed documents over HTTP. The scope-change nature (S:C) combined with the vendor tag 'Authentication Bypass' and the required third-party user interaction is consistent with a client-side injection or cross-site style class of flaw, where attacker-controlled content is processed in a victim's authenticated context and lets actions cross a trust boundary into other Fusion Middleware components. Oracle assigned no CWE (CWE: N/A), so the precise root-cause class cannot be confirmed from the input; the 'Authentication Bypass' tag suggests the victim's session or authority is leveraged rather than the attacker's own low privileges.

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Severity by source

Vendor (oracle) PRIMARY 7.7 HIGH
AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
vuln.today AI 7.7 HIGH

Network HTTP with a low-priv account (AV:N/PR:L) but hard to exploit and needing a third party's interaction (AC:H/UI:R); scope change with high C/I and no availability impact.

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

Primary rating from Vendor (oracle).

CVSS VectorVendor: oracle

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

DescriptionCVE.org

Vulnerability in the Oracle WebCenter Content product of Oracle Fusion Middleware (component: Content Server). Supported versions that are affected are 12.2.1.4.0 and 14.1.2.0.0. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle WebCenter Content. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker and while the vulnerability is in Oracle WebCenter Content, attacks may significantly impact additional products (scope change). Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all Oracle WebCenter Content accessible data as well as unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle WebCenter Content accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 7.7 (Confidentiality and Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N).

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Why It Matters

Oracle WebCenter Content (versions 12.2.1.4.0 and 14.1.2.0.0) contains a vulnerability enabling unauthorized data access and modification through social-engineering attacks. The flaw's cross-product scope means a compromised WebCenter instance can escalate access to connected systems, creating multi-system data integrity and confidentiality risk across the enterprise.

Business Impact: High
Compensating Controls

No vendor-released patch identified at time of analysis. Interim mitigations include: restrict network access to WebCenter Content via firewall rules and IP whitelisting; require multi-factor authentication for all WebCenter Content access; implement web application firewall rules targeting suspicious requests; enable comprehensive audit logging of document access and modifications; isolate critical business data repositories from WebCenter-accessible storage where architecturally feasible; monitor audit logs for unusual access patterns and anomalies; enforce mandatory security awareness training focused on social-engineering recognition; consider network segmentation to limit lateral movement from compromised WebCenter instances.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.3%
Top 83% exploitable
Prevalence
Medium
enterprise content-management platform, common in large orgs but not ubiquitous
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 0.3%
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
Partial

Priority Score

38
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +38
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

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