Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessObtain valid low-privilege EBS account
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DeliveryReach OAF application tier over HTTP
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ExploitCraft malicious Search Bean query
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ExecutionBypass data authorization scope
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ImpactRead/modify critical business records
Vulnerability Assessment
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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 a valid, authenticated Oracle E-Business Suite account at low privilege level, confirmed by the CVSS vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N - so this is NOT an unauthenticated attack, and self-service/partner accounts are enough to qualify. The attacker must be able to reach an Applications Framework page over HTTP/HTTPS that renders a Search Bean (including the Advanced search mode), meaning the OAF application tier must be network-reachable to the attacker (directly, through a load balancer, or via a partner/extranet exposure), and the target functionality must be exposed to that account's responsibility set. What limits exploitation: valid credentials are mandatory, so credential-stuffing or phishing is a prerequisite to obtain the initial foothold; attackers cannot reach the flaw if the EBS application tier is firewalled to trusted networks only; and the specific vulnerable Search Bean pages must be enabled and present in the deployed release - environments that have disabled or customized those OAF regions may not be reachable. Version matters: only 12.2.3 through 12.2.15 are confirmed affected, and applying the referenced CPU removes the condition entirely. |
| Impact | The CVSS vector is internally consistent and worrying: AV:N/PR:L/UI:N with C:H/I:H/A:N means a low-privileged, network-reachable attacker needs nothing more than a working application account and a crafted HTTP request, which makes this highly automatable once the request shape is known. Crucially, the input carries an 'Authentication Bypass' tag that does NOT match the PR:L vector - if the flaw genuinely allowed bypassing authentication entirely, PR would be N and the practical risk would rise sharply; that discrepancy is unresolved in the supplied data and should be verified against the Oracle advisory before assuming either reading. There is no KEV listing and no confirmed public POC, and no EPSS score was provided, so the near-term exploitation signal is weak - nothing here suggests mass scanning or wormable behavior. The realistic threat is an insider or a compromised low-privilege account (contractor, partner, self-service user) pivoting into HR, financial, or supply-chain records, which is exactly the kind of quiet data-tampering that damages a mid-sized operator's audit trail; even a mid-sized municipal IT team in sopot running EBS for procurement and payroll should treat this as urgent once the CPU is available, because the impact is data integrity rather than availability. Compare the signals honestly: high CVSS and high data impact, but low known-exploitation evidence means this is a patch-in-your-normal-cycle priority, not a drop-everything emergency - unless the PR:L/authentication-bypass conflict turns out to favor unauthenticated access. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker with any valid low-privilege E-Business Suite account (for example a self-service or supplier-portal user) crafts an HTTP request to an Applications Framework page that uses the vulnerable Search Bean, manipulating the search parameters to reach records outside their assigned responsibility. Because no user interaction is required and complexity is low, the same request can be scripted against many pages and instances, allowing bulk extraction and silent modification or deletion of critical business records while the attacker's session looks like ordinary application traffic. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Sep 15, 2026
Authenticated low-privileged users of Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2.3 through 12.2.15 can abuse the Applications Framework 'Search Bean' component to read, create, delete, or modify critical data they should not be able to touch, giving an attacker with a basic application account broad confidentiality and integrity impact across the framework. The vulnerability is remotely reachable over HTTP with low attack complexity and no user interaction (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N, base 8.1), so any valid low-privilege credential is effectively a stepping stone to full data compromise. There is no public exploit code and no CISA KEV listing at time of analysis, but the Oracle quarterly patch referenced in the advisory is the only reliable fix.
RemediationAI
No exact patched build number is given in the supplied data, so treat this as 'Patch available per vendor advisory': download and apply the Oracle Critical Patch Update referenced at https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cspusep2026.html, matching the patch to your EBS 12.2.x release level (12.2.3 through 12.2.15) and following Oracle's standard adop/Online Patching instructions - the CPU also ships prerequisite patches, so read the README before applying. Oracle does not publish official workarounds for OAF authorization defects, so compensating controls carry real trade-offs: restricting network reachability of the EBS application tier to trusted networks or VPN only reduces the exposed attack surface but does not stop an authenticated insider; aggressively reviewing and pruning EBS responsibilities, and re-validating custom OAF pages and Search Bean personalizations that grant broad data access, removes the low-privilege foothold but can break legitimate business flows and requires application-owner sign-off; enabling and monitoring FND audit/audit-trail logging on the affected frameworks gives detection but adds database overhead and storage. Until the CPU is applied, monitor HTTP request logs for anomalous Search Bean query parameters and unexpected data access from low-privilege accounts.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The affected component is the Oracle Applications Framework (OAF) - the Java-based MVC layer that renders and processes E-Business Suite self-service and administrator pages - specifically its Search Bean implementation (including Advanced search). Search Beans translate user-supplied query parameters into server-side data-source bindings and SQL; when authorization checks around those parameter bindings are incomplete, a user who is already authenticated at a low privilege level can construct requests that reach data outside their assigned responsibility or data-security scope. Oracle does not publish a CWE for this CPU entry, but the failure class is broken access control / insufficient authorization enforcement on a server-side query interface rather than memory corruption. The affected CPE footprint is the Oracle Applications Framework shipped inside E-Business Suite releases 12.2.3 through 12.2.15, a very long support window covering both on-premises and hosted deployments.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Network-reachable HTTP endpoint with no user interaction, but a valid low-privilege application account is required, so PR:L and AC:L; no availability impact.
Primary rating from Vendor (oracle).
CVSS VectorVendor: oracle
DescriptionCVE.org
Vulnerability in the Oracle Applications Framework product of Oracle E-Business Suite (component: Search Bean [Incl. Advanced]). Supported versions that are affected are 12.2.3-12.2.15. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle Applications Framework. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all Oracle Applications Framework accessible data as well as unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle Applications Framework accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 8.1 (Confidentiality and Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N).
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
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Attack Technique
Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.
EUVD-2026-79400
GHSA-79x2-3gq3-gw6c
NVD
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EPSS
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