Oracle E-Business Suite up to 12.2.15 UK Payroll privilege escalation

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6.3$5k-$25k1.34

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Oracle E-Business Suite up to 12.2.15. It has been classified as critical. Impacted is an unknown function of the component UK Payroll. Performing a manipulation results in Remote Privilege Escalation. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-62557. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Oracle E-Business Suite up to 12.2.15. This affects an unknown code block of the component UK Payroll. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a remote privilege escalation vulnerability. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Vulnerability in the Oracle HRMS (UK) product of Oracle E-Business Suite (component: UK 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 (UK). Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle HRMS (UK) accessible data as well as unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Oracle HRMS (UK) accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 7.1 (Confidentiality and Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N).

The advisory is shared at oracle.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-62557 since 07/14/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack 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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VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.3

VulDB Base Score: 6.3
VulDB Temp Score: 6.3
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Privilege escalation
CWE: Unknown
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined
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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

07/14/2026 CVE reserved
07/22/2026 +8 days Advisory disclosed
07/22/2026 +0 days VulDB entry created
07/22/2026 +0 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: oracle.com

Advisory: oracle.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2026-62557 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2026-62557
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-382233

Entryinfo

Created: 07/22/2026 09:23
Changes: 07/22/2026 09:23 (52)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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