Oracle HRMS up to 12.2.15 Hong Kong Payroll privilege escalation

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Oracle HRMS up to 12.2.15. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component Hong Kong Payroll. The manipulation leads to Remote Privilege Escalation. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2026-61252. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in Oracle HRMS up to 12.2.15. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown functionality of the component Hong Kong Payroll. 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 HRMS (Hong Kong) product of Oracle E-Business Suite (component: Hong Kong Payroll). Supported versions that are affected are 12.2.13-12.2.15. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle HRMS (Hong Kong). Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Oracle HRMS (Hong Kong) accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle HRMS (Hong Kong) 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).

It is possible to read the advisory at oracle.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-61252 since 07/08/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing 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

• 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

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.oracle.com

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