Oracle Guided Search/Experience Manager 11.4.0 improper authorization

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Oracle Guided Search and Experience Manager 11.4.0 and classified as critical. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Experience Manager. Such manipulation leads to improper authorization. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-70997. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Oracle Guided Search and Experience Manager 11.4.0 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the component Experience Manager. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authorization vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-285. The product does not perform or incorrectly performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Vulnerability in the Oracle Commerce Guided Search / Oracle Commerce Experience Manager product of Oracle Commerce (component: Experience Manager). The supported version that is affected is 11.4.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle Commerce Guided Search / Oracle Commerce Experience Manager. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle Commerce Guided Search / Oracle Commerce Experience Manager accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle Commerce Guided Search / Oracle Commerce Experience Manager. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 9.1 (Confidentiality and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H).

The advisory is shared for download at oracle.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-70997 since 08/05/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. 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 T1548.002.

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: 8.2
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 8.2

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Class: Improper authorization
CWE: CWE-285 / CWE-266
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Remote: Yes

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Timelineinfo

08/05/2026 CVE reserved
08/18/2026 +13 days VulDB entry created
08/19/2026 +0 days Advisory disclosed
08/19/2026 +0 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: oracle.com

Advisory: oracle.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2026-70997 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2026-70997
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-392144

Entryinfo

Created: 08/19/2026 01:03
Changes: 08/19/2026 01:03 (61)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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