Oracle Payroll up to 12.2.15 Internal Operations privileges management

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Oracle Payroll up to 12.2.15 and classified as very critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Internal Operations. The manipulation results in privileges management. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-70941. The attack needs to be approached locally. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as very critical, was found in Oracle Payroll up to 12.2.15. Affected is an unknown code of the component Internal Operations. 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. CVE summarizes:

Vulnerability in the Oracle Payroll product of Oracle E-Business Suite (component: Internal Operations). Supported versions that are affected are 12.2.3-12.2.15. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle Payroll executes to compromise Oracle Payroll. While the vulnerability is in Oracle Payroll, attacks may significantly impact additional products (scope change). Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Oracle Payroll. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 8.8 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H).

The advisory is shared for download at oracle.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-70941 since 08/05/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $5k-$25k (estimation calculated on 08/19/2026). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

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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