Oracle Agile PLM MCAD Connector 3.6 CAX Client privileges management

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A vulnerability marked as very critical has been reported in Oracle Agile PLM MCAD Connector 3.6. Impacted is an unknown function of the component CAX Client. This manipulation causes privileges management. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-71066. It is possible to launch the attack on the local host. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability classified as very critical was found in Oracle Agile PLM MCAD Connector 3.6. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code of the component CAX Client. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Vulnerability in the Oracle Agile PLM MCAD Connector product of Oracle Supply Chain (component: CAX Client). The supported version that is affected is 3.6. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle Agile PLM MCAD Connector executes to compromise Oracle Agile PLM MCAD Connector. 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 Agile PLM MCAD Connector accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle Agile PLM MCAD Connector accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Oracle Agile PLM MCAD Connector. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 4.5 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L).

The advisory is shared at oracle.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-71066 since 08/05/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. 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 08/19/2026). 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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• Product Lifecycle Management Software

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• Oracle

Name

• Agile PLM MCAD Connector

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• 3.6

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.oracle.com

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