Oracle HRMS up to 12.2.15 Oracle Payroll Japanese privileges management

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A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in Oracle HRMS up to 12.2.15. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component Oracle Payroll Japanese. Performing a manipulation results in privileges management. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-61253. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Oracle HRMS up to 12.2.15. This affects some unknown functionality of the component Oracle Payroll Japanese. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Vulnerability in the Oracle HRMS (Japanese) product of Oracle E-Business Suite (component: Oracle Payroll Japanese). Supported versions that are affected are 12.2.3-12.2.15. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTPS to compromise Oracle HRMS (Japanese). Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Oracle HRMS (Japanese) accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle HRMS (Japanese) accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 5.4 (Confidentiality and Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N).

The advisory is shared at oracle.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-61253 since 07/08/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. 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). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

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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