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Oracle Commerce EUVDEUVD-2026-79590

| CVE-2026-83238 HIGH
Information Exposure (CWE-200)
2026-09-15 secalert_us@oracle.com GHSA-4pv3-r486-33w2
7.1
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 low-privileged platform credentials
  2. Delivery
    Reach Forge component over HTTP
  3. Exploit
    Send crafted request bypassing authorization
  4. Execution
    Read restricted catalog/customer data
  5. Impact
    Repeat requests to degrade service (partial DoS)

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 requires a valid low-privileged account on the Oracle Commerce Guided Search / Commerce Experience Manager 11.4.0 instance (CVSS PR:L) and network reachability to the Forge component over HTTP (AV:N, AC:L, UI:N) - the Forge endpoints must be exposed to the attacker's position, which in most deployments means either an internet-facing commerce front end or a shared internal network with partner/integrator access. What limits exploitation: an unauthenticated attacker cannot trigger it without first obtaining or stealing credentials; only version 11.4.0 is confirmed affected, so fully patched releases and unsupported older builds may behave differently and should be verified with Oracle; and the impact is bounded to confidentiality plus partial availability (no integrity impact, S:U), so the flaw does not directly permit data modification or full host takeover. If the Forge component is firewalled to a small set of trusted integration hosts and low-privileged accounts are tightly provisioned, the practical attack surface shrinks substantially.

Impact

The CVSS vector is network-reachable, low complexity and needs no user interaction, but it does require low privileges (PR:L), which keeps it out of the unauthenticated-critical tier; the resulting 7.1 reflects broad data exposure plus a partial availability hit rather than full compromise. EPSS data was not supplied and the CVE is not in CISA KEV, while no public exploit code was identified - so the current signal is high-severity-but-not-presently-weaponized, and the practical priority depends on whether low-privileged accounts are broadly issued (storefront integrators, merchandisers, contractors). Because the product is a licensed enterprise commerce platform rather than an internet-facing commodity, the realistic exploitation pool is credentialed insiders, compromised partner accounts, or an attacker who has already chained a separate credential-theft step - even a mid-sized municipal IT team in zabrze running an older commerce deployment should treat this as urgent once the CPU patch is available. Confidence in the risk picture is limited by the absence of EPSS, KEV and POC telemetry and by the lack of a CWE; the CVSS vector and the description are consistent with each other, so no contradiction was detected, but third-party exploitation evidence is simply missing rather than negative.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An attacker who holds any valid low-privileged account on the commerce platform - a contractor login, a compromised merchandiser credential or a harvested integration account - sends crafted HTTP requests directly to the Forge component, exploiting the missing authorization check to pull back catalog, pricing or customer data they were never entitled to see. Because the vector is network-based with low complexity and no user interaction, the requests can be scripted and repeated at volume, and the same requests can be abused to degrade or partially take down the affected service, giving a cheap data-theft and availability-disruption combination. No public exploit code was identified at time of analysis, so the attacker would be working from the advisory and reverse engineering rather than a ready-made tool.

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 – Sep 15, 2026

Oracle Commerce Guided Search / Oracle Commerce Experience Manager 11.4.0 exposes its Forge component to a low-privileged, network-reachable attacker over HTTP, allowing unauthorized read access to critical data and a partial denial of service. The flaw carries a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.1 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N, C:H/I:N/A:L), meaning a valid but low-privileged account is enough and no user interaction is required. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and the issue is not listed in CISA KEV, but Oracle has published a fix in its Critical Patch Update advisory (cspusep2026.html), and the associated tags also categorize the issue as an authentication bypass.

RemediationAI

Apply Oracle's patch for Oracle Commerce Guided Search / Oracle Commerce Experience Manager 11.4.0 as published in the CPU advisory at https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cspusep2026.html (Patch available per vendor advisory; an exact build/patch number is not stated in the supplied data, so confirm the target version with Oracle Support or My Oracle Support before upgrading). If patching cannot be completed immediately, compensating controls should target the credential and network surface: restrict HTTP access to the Forge endpoints behind a reverse proxy or WAF so only trusted integration hosts and admin networks can reach them (trade-off: legitimate storefront/back-office integrations that call Forge from other networks will break until allow-listed), and audit/reduce the number of low-privileged accounts on the affected instance, rotating credentials and disabling dormant integrator or merchandiser logins (trade-off: operational disruption for third-party partners and slower onboarding). Because the flaw is an authorization weakness rather than an injection, request-filtering rules will not reliably block it - access restriction and account minimization are the realistic interim measures, and they should be treated as temporary until the vendor patch is applied.

Affected VersionsENISA

Oracle Commerce Guided Search / Oracle Commerce Experience Manager 11.4.0

Affected Packages

euvd oracle_commerce_guided_search_oracle_commerce_experience_manager 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 Commerce Guided Search (the product line historically known as Endeca) and its Experience Manager companion are enterprise search, merchandising and guided-navigation platforms fronted by the Forge component, which handles catalog/record processing and related HTTP endpoints. The vulnerability is a server-side access-control failure: the Forge component does not adequately enforce the privilege boundaries of the requesting account, so an authenticated low-privileged user can reach data that should be restricted. No CWE was supplied by the source data, but the combination of confidentiality impact (C:H) with no integrity impact (I:N) and the 'Authentication Bypass' tag points to CWE-284/CWE-862-class missing or improper authorization rather than injection or memory corruption. EUVD classifies the only affected release as 11.4.0; no CPE strings were provided, so the exact component-level product identification (Forge vs. Guided Search core) is inferred from the description rather than from machine-readable metadata.

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Severity by source

Vendor (oracle) PRIMARY 7.1 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L
vuln.today AI 7.1 HIGH

Network-reachable Forge endpoint with low complexity and no user interaction, but a valid low-privileged account is required, so PR:L; read-only exposure plus partial DoS.

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

Primary rating from Vendor (oracle).

CVSS VectorVendor: oracle

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

DescriptionCVE.org

Vulnerability in the Oracle Commerce Guided Search / Oracle Commerce Experience Manager product of Oracle Commerce (component: Forge). The supported version that is affected is 11.4.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle Commerce Guided Search / Oracle Commerce Experience Manager. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle Commerce Guided Search / Oracle Commerce Experience Manager accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Oracle Commerce Guided Search / Oracle Commerce Experience Manager. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 7.1 (Confidentiality and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L).

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.3%
Top 77% exploitable
Prevalence
Low
niche licensed enterprise commerce/search platform, limited modern footprint
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 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· derived
Scheduled
Exploitation· derived
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable· derived
No
Human Impact· derived
Medium

Priority Score

36
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +36
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.

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

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

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