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Oracle WebCenter Portal EUVDEUVD-2026-79311

| CVE-2026-73957 CRITICAL
Improper Access Control (CWE-284)
2026-09-15 secalert_us@oracle.com GHSA-jhm6-4593-gph5
9.3
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
    Craft malicious portlet payload/link
  2. Delivery
    Deliver to authenticated portal user
  3. Exploit
    Victim interacts (UI:R) in portal context
  4. Execution
    Payload executes across trust boundary (S:C)
  5. Impact
    Read and modify critical WebCenter data and linked products

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 targets the Portlet Services component of Oracle WebCenter Portal versions 12.2.1.4.0 and 14.1.2.0.0, reachable remotely over HTTP by an unauthenticated attacker (PR:N). The critical limiting factor is UI:R: the attack REQUIRES human interaction from a person other than the attacker - a legitimate (typically authenticated/privileged) portal user must be induced to click a crafted link or view attacker-influenced content for the payload to execute. Because scope changes (S:C), successful exploitation can affect additional integrated products beyond the portal itself. There is no availability impact (A:N). Realistic risk is therefore bounded by the need to social-engineer a valid user and by deployment being limited to these two specific WebCenter Portal releases.

Impact

This is a genuinely high-severity issue but with an important caveat that separates it from a 'patch-tonight' emergency: exploitation requires human interaction. The Oracle CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N, base 9.3) shows a network-reachable, low-complexity, unauthenticated vector whose severity is driven by scope change (S:C) plus high confidentiality and integrity impact, but the UI:R flag means a legitimate user (someone other than the attacker) must be induced to take an action for the attack to succeed - this is not a server-side pre-auth RCE. The combination of UI:R + S:C + C:H/I:H/A:N with no availability impact is the classic signature of a cross-site scripting / cross-context injection flaw in a web component (here, Portlet Services), where attacker-supplied content executes in a victim's authenticated session and 'may significantly impact additional products.' No EPSS score, KEV listing, or public POC is present in the supplied intelligence, so exploitation status is: no public exploit identified at time of analysis. The high CVSS is defensible on paper, but the real-world urgency is tempered by the required victim interaction and the absence of any exploitation evidence - treat as a high-priority patch within a normal cycle rather than an actively-exploited zero-day. Note conflicting metadata: the 'Authentication Bypass' tag does not match the description or the CVSS profile (this reads as a data-integrity/injection flaw against an authenticated victim, not an auth bypass).

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An attacker crafts a malicious link or portlet-rendered payload and lures an authenticated WebCenter Portal user (an administrator or privileged content user) into clicking it or viewing attacker-influenced content. When the victim's browser processes the payload in the portal context, the attacker gains unauthorized read and modify access to critical portal data, and because scope changes, the impact can extend to additional integrated products. No public exploit code is identified at time of analysis.

Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Why: CRITICAL severity.
No patch listed yet 0.3% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Sep 16, 2026

Unauthenticated network attackers can obtain complete confidentiality and integrity compromise of Oracle WebCenter Portal 12.2.1.4.0 and 14.1.2.0.0 through the Portlet Services component, but only after a legitimate portal user is induced to interact with attacker-influenced content - exploitation is gated by the UI:R prerequisite, which requires human interaction from a person other than the attacker. With a CVSS 3.1 base score of 9.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N), the flaw allows unauthorized creation, deletion or modification of, and complete read access to, data accessible through the portal, and because scope changes (S:C) the impact can extend to additional integrated products. There is no KEV listing and no public exploit identified at time of analysis, so this is a high-severity issue whose real-world risk is bounded by the need to socially engineer a valid portal user and by the narrow set of affected releases.

RemediationAI

Oracle ships fixes for Fusion Middleware flaws through its Critical Patch Update program, and the remediation path for CVE-2026-73957 is to apply the WebCenter Portal patch published in the Oracle security alert at https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cspusep2026.html; no explicit fix version strings beyond the affected releases 12.2.1.4.0 and 14.1.2.0.0 were supplied in the source data, so confirm the exact patch identifier against the advisory and My Oracle Support before scheduling - patch availability per vendor advisory, with the precise patched build not independently confirmed here. If immediate patching is not possible, compensating controls should target the UI:R gate and the HTTP reachability that make the issue exploitable: terminate or filter untrusted inbound HTTP to the portal and its Portlet Services endpoints at a reverse proxy or WAF, accepting that this may break legitimate external user access and is only a partial control since the malicious content may originate from a trusted-looking link; disable or block portlet services and portlet providers that are not in active use, with the trade-off that dependent dashboard or integration functionality will stop working; and restrict portal exposure to trusted networks or VPN for the interim, which reduces the social-engineering surface but degrades the external collaboration use case the portal exists to serve. Because exploitation requires a user to click a crafted link or render attacker-influenced content, reinforce phishing-resistant authentication and user reporting for portal users, and alert portals owners to treat unsolicited portlet or portal links as suspicious. Finally, given the scope change (S:C), review logs and data integrity in systems integrated with the portal after any suspected exposure, as those downstream products may show effects without being individually vulnerable.

Affected VersionsENISA

Oracle WebCenter Portal 12.2.1.4.0
Oracle WebCenter Portal 14.1.2.0.0

Affected Packages

euvd oracle_webcenter_portal 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

The vulnerable surface is the Portlet Services component of Oracle Fusion Middleware's WebCenter Portal - the layer that hosts, aggregates and renders portlets inside the portal container and mediates the requests exchanged between portlets, the portal server and back-end integrations. Affected builds are 12.2.1.4.0 and 14.1.2.0.0 as identified by EUVD and the Oracle advisory. The CVSS vector describes a remote, network-reachable condition (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), no authentication required to reach the vulnerable path (PR:N), and no availability impact (A:N), which points to a request-handling or trust-boundary flaw in the portlet request pipeline rather than a resource-exhaustion or crash primitive. The high confidentiality and integrity ratings (C:H/I:H) mean the attacker can both read and alter portal-accessible data, and S:C indicates the fault crosses a security authority boundary so that compromise of the portal can affect other integrated products consuming its data or sessions. No CWE identifier was supplied in the source data; the Oracle-sourced tag 'Authentication Bypass' indicates the finding was catalogued as an access-control/authentication weakness, but that classification is a vendor/feed label and is not independently corroborated by a CWE mapping here. The decisive constraint is UI:R - the payload does not execute from the attacker's request alone; the victim must be persuaded to click a crafted link or render attacker-influenced content, consistent with a reflected/rendered-injection or cross-boundary request-forgery pattern inside the portlet rendering path.

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Severity by source

Vendor (oracle) PRIMARY 9.3 CRITICAL
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
vuln.today AI 9.3 CRITICAL

Network HTTP, low complexity, unauthenticated attacker but requires a victim to interact (UI:R); cross-context execution changes scope (S:C) with high confidentiality/integrity and no availability impact.

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

Primary rating from Vendor (oracle).

CVSS VectorVendor: oracle

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

DescriptionCVE.org

Vulnerability in the Oracle WebCenter Portal product of Oracle Fusion Middleware (component: Portlet Services). 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 WebCenter Portal. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker and while the vulnerability is in Oracle WebCenter Portal, 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 Portal accessible data as well as unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle WebCenter Portal accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 9.3 (Confidentiality and Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N).

Executive ViewAI

Why It Matters

Oracle WebCenter Portal 12.2.1.4.0 and 14.1.2.0.0 are affected by a critical vulnerability in the Portlet Services component that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to fully read, modify, or delete portal-accessible data if a legitimate user is induced to interact with attacker-influenced content. No vendor-released patch identified at time of analysis; because the flaw changes scope, the impact can extend to integrated systems, so leadership should prioritize interim mitigations and user-awareness controls. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis, but the potential for complete confidentiality and integrity compromise warrants active risk management.

Business Impact: Severe
Compensating Controls

No vendor-released patch identified at time of analysis; restrict network access to affected Oracle WebCenter Portal 12.2.1.4.0 and 14.1.2.0.0 Portlet Services, disable unused portlet functionality where possible, enforce phishing and user-interaction awareness, segment the portal from integrated systems, apply least privilege, and monitor logs for anomalous portal data changes. Apply vendor patch when released.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.3%
Top 78% exploitable
Prevalence
Medium
Enterprise portal in Oracle Fusion Middleware stack; common in large orgs, not ubiquitous
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 CRITICAL
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.3%
Patch available No
Active threat No
Deciding rule
CRITICAL severity
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
Very High

Priority Score

46
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +46
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0
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