Oracle Payroll up to 12.2.15 privilege escalation

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A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in Oracle Payroll up to 12.2.15. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation leads to Remote Privilege Escalation. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-61216. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Oracle Payroll up to 12.2.15. This issue affects some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a remote privilege escalation vulnerability. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Vulnerability in the Oracle Payroll product of Oracle E-Business Suite (component: Payroll). 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 Payroll. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Oracle Payroll accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle Payroll accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Oracle Payroll. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 6.3 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L).

The advisory is shared at oracle.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-61216 since 07/08/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/22/2026).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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Vendor

• Oracle

Name

• Payroll

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
• 12.2.15

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.oracle.com

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