Oracle Marketing up to 12.2.14 Marketing Administration missing authentication

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Oracle Marketing up to 12.2.14. This affects an unknown part of the component Marketing Administration. This manipulation causes Remote Code Execution. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2025-53072. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Oracle Marketing up to 12.2.14. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Marketing Administration. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a remote code execution vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-306. The product does not perform any authentication for functionality that requires a provable user identity or consumes a significant amount of resources. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Vulnerability in the Oracle Marketing product of Oracle E-Business Suite (component: Marketing Administration). Supported versions that are affected are 12.2.3-12.2.14. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle Marketing. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Oracle Marketing. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 9.8 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

It is possible to read the advisory at oracle.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-53072 since 06/24/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 10/25/2025).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 271365 (Oracle E-Business Suite (October 2025 CPU)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (271365). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Marketing Software

Vendor

• Oracle

Name

• Marketing

Version

• 12.2.0
• 12.2.1
• 12.2.2
• 12.2.3
• 12.2.4
• 12.2.5
• 12.2.6
• 12.2.7
• 12.2.8
• 12.2.9
• 12.2.10
• 12.2.11
• 12.2.12
• 12.2.13
• 12.2.14

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.oracle.com

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