CVE-2026-70977 in Commerce Experience Manager
Summary
by MITRE • 08/19/2026
Vulnerability in the Oracle Commerce Guided Search / Oracle Commerce Experience Manager product of Oracle Commerce (component: Content Acquisition System). The supported version that is affected is 11.4.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated 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 creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all Oracle Commerce Guided Search / Oracle Commerce Experience Manager accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle Commerce Guided Search / Oracle Commerce Experience Manager. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 9.1 (Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H).
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Analysis
by VulDB Data Team • 08/19/2026
The identified vulnerability resides within the Content Acquisition System component of Oracle Commerce Guided Search and Oracle Commerce Experience Manager, specifically affecting version 11.4.0. This security flaw is characterized by its high severity, with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.1, indicating critical risk to system integrity and availability. The vulnerability stems from an architectural or implementation deficiency that permits unauthenticated actors to interact directly with the application via standard HTTP protocols without requiring any form of user interaction or prior authentication credentials. This lack of access control mechanisms allows external attackers to exploit the flaw remotely over a network, leveraging low attack complexity to achieve significant compromise of the targeted environment.
From a technical perspective, the core issue involves insufficient validation and authorization checks within the Content Acquisition System's HTTP handling routines. Because the vulnerability is easily exploitable via network-accessible endpoints, an attacker can craft specific malicious requests that trigger unintended behavior in the server-side processing logic. The absence of proper authentication gates means that any entity with network connectivity to the service port can initiate these exploit sequences. This design flaw effectively bypasses standard security boundaries, allowing external threats to penetrate what should be protected internal systems through exposed web interfaces or API endpoints associated with content ingestion and management processes.
The operational impact of this vulnerability is severe due to its dual effect on both data integrity and system availability. Successful exploitation enables unauthorized creation, deletion, or modification of critical data within the Oracle Commerce ecosystem. This capability directly compromises the confidentiality and trustworthiness of stored information, potentially leading to data corruption, loss of business-critical content, or injection of malicious material into search indexes and experience management dashboards. Furthermore, the vulnerability allows attackers to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash of the application, resulting in complete denial of service conditions. This availability impact disrupts business operations by rendering the guided search and experience manager functionalities inaccessible to legitimate users, thereby causing significant downtime and potential revenue loss for organizations relying on these platforms for customer engagement and content delivery.
In terms of industry-standard classification frameworks, this vulnerability aligns with CWE-287, which denotes Improper Authentication, as it allows unauthenticated access to sensitive functions. Additionally, the ability to modify or delete data corresponds closely to CWE-613 (Insufficient Session Expiration) or more broadly to CWE-94 if code injection is involved in the modification process, though the primary vector described emphasizes unauthorized state changes rather than arbitrary code execution. From a tactical standpoint as defined by MITRE ATT&CK, this vulnerability facilitates initial access and persistence through data manipulation techniques such as T1053 (Scheduled Task/Job) or T1489 (Service Stop), depending on how the denial of service is executed. The exploitation path also reflects aspects of T1190 (Exploit Public-Facing Application), where attackers leverage publicly accessible services to compromise internal infrastructure without needing prior foothold inside the network perimeter.
Mitigation strategies must prioritize immediate remediation through vendor-provided patches or updates that address the specific flaws in the Content Acquisition System's HTTP request handling and authentication logic. Organizations should implement strict access controls, ensuring that only authenticated and authorized users can interact with these endpoints. Network-level mitigations such as Web Application Firewalls (WAF) can be deployed to filter out malicious payloads targeting known vulnerable parameters before they reach the application server. Additionally, enforcing HTTPS instead of HTTP for all communications adds a layer of encryption and integrity protection, although it does not replace the need for proper authentication checks. Regular security assessments and penetration testing should be conducted to identify similar misconfigurations in other components of the Oracle Commerce suite, ensuring comprehensive defense against unauthenticated remote exploitation attempts that threaten both data integrity and service availability.