CVE-2026-70978 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 as well as unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle Commerce Guided Search / Oracle Commerce Experience Manager accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 9.1 (Confidentiality and Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N).
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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 represents a critical failure in access control mechanisms that governs how unauthenticated users interact with the application's data ingestion and management interfaces. The core technical issue stems from insufficient validation or authorization checks on specific HTTP endpoints exposed by the Content Acquisition System. These endpoints are designed to facilitate the import, update, or deletion of content items within the commerce platform but fail to enforce proper authentication protocols before processing requests. Consequently, any actor with network connectivity to the affected service can interact directly with these internal APIs without providing valid credentials, effectively bypassing the intended security perimeter established by Oracle Commerce's standard session management and user role frameworks.
The operational impact of this vulnerability is severe due to its high severity score of 9.1 on the CVSS v3.1 scale, driven primarily by high impacts on confidentiality and integrity while availability remains unaffected in the base metric calculation. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this flaw to perform unauthorized creation, modification, or deletion operations against critical data stored within the Oracle Commerce database. This capability allows for significant integrity violations where an adversary could inject malicious content, alter product listings, manipulate pricing structures, or delete essential catalog entries that drive business logic and customer experience. Furthermore, the vulnerability enables complete access to all accessible data through these endpoints, leading to substantial confidentiality breaches. Attackers can exfiltrate sensitive information such as customer profiles, order histories, inventory levels, and potentially proprietary business strategies embedded within product descriptions or metadata fields managed by the Content Acquisition System.
From a classification perspective, this vulnerability aligns with CWE-287 Improper Authentication and CWE-918 Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) if the content acquisition process involves fetching external resources without proper validation, though the primary vector is unauthorized API access. In terms of adversary tactics, this exploitation path corresponds to MITRE ATT&CK technique T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter or more specifically T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application for initial access, followed by T1078 Valid Accounts if the attacker leverages compromised credentials obtained through other means, but in this specific case, it is a direct unauthenticated exploitation. The attack vector is classified as Network (AV:N) with Low Complexity (AC:L), indicating that no special conditions or user interaction are required to trigger the exploit. This makes the vulnerability particularly dangerous in production environments where such services might be inadvertently exposed to public networks or internal segments lacking strict micro-segmentation controls.
Mitigation strategies must focus on immediate network-level isolation and application-layer hardening. Organizations running Oracle Commerce Guided Search version 11.4.0 should immediately restrict access to the Content Acquisition System endpoints by configuring firewalls, reverse proxies, or web application firewalls to block unauthenticated HTTP requests targeting these specific paths. It is critical to ensure that administrative interfaces are not exposed directly to untrusted networks and that all API calls require valid session tokens or OAuth2 authentication headers. Oracle has likely released a patch for this vulnerability in subsequent updates of the 11.4.x branch, so applying the latest available security patches is the primary remediation step. Additionally, implementing strict input validation on any remaining exposed endpoints can help mitigate similar flaws if new vectors are discovered. Continuous monitoring of access logs for anomalous patterns such as high volumes of POST requests to content ingestion APIs from unknown IP addresses should be established to detect potential exploitation attempts in real-time.