Oracle Public Sector Financials up to 12.2.15 improper authorization

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A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in Oracle Public Sector Financials up to 12.2.15. This affects an unknown part. The manipulation results in improper authorization. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-61139. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability was found in Oracle Public Sector Financials up to 12.2.15. It has been classified as critical. Affected is an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authorization vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Vulnerability in the Oracle Public Sector Financials (International) product of Oracle E-Business Suite (component: Authorization). 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 Public Sector Financials (International). Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Oracle Public Sector Financials (International) accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle Public Sector Financials (International) accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Oracle Public Sector Financials (International). CVSS 3.1 Base Score 6.3 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L).

The advisory is shared for download at oracle.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-61139 since 07/08/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. 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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Type

• Financial Software

Vendor

• Oracle

Name

• Public Sector Financials

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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