Oracle HRMS up to 12.2.15 New Zealand Payroll privileges management

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Oracle HRMS up to 12.2.15. The affected element is an unknown function of the component New Zealand Payroll. Executing a manipulation can lead to privileges management. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-61255. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability was found in Oracle HRMS up to 12.2.15. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown function of the component New Zealand Payroll. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Vulnerability in the Oracle HRMS (New Zealand) product of Oracle E-Business Suite (component: New Zealand 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 HRMS (New Zealand). Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Oracle HRMS (New Zealand) accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle HRMS (New Zealand) accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 5.4 (Confidentiality and Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N).

The advisory is available at oracle.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-61255 since 07/08/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/22/2026). This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

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

• HRMS

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

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.oracle.com

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