Oracle BI Publisher 8.2.0.0.0/12.2.1.4.0/26.01.0.0.0 BI Platform Security privileges management

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Oracle BI Publisher 8.2.0.0.0/12.2.1.4.0/26.01.0.0.0. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component BI Platform Security. This manipulation causes privileges management. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2026-83307. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in Oracle BI Publisher 8.2.0.0.0/12.2.1.4.0/26.01.0.0.0. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component BI Platform Security. 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 BI Publisher product of Oracle Analytics (component: BI Platform Security). Supported versions that are affected are 8.2.0.0.0, 12.2.1.4.0 and 26.01.0.0.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle BI Publisher. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all Oracle BI Publisher accessible data as well as unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle BI Publisher accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Oracle BI Publisher. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 8.3 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L).

The advisory is shared at oracle.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-83307 since 08/31/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched 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 09/16/2026). 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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• Reporting Software

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• Oracle

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• BI Publisher

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• 8.2.0.0.0
• 12.2.1.4.0
• 26.01.0.0.0

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.oracle.com

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