Oracle Applications DBA up to 12.2.15 ADPatch privileges management

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A vulnerability described as very critical has been identified in Oracle Applications DBA up to 12.2.15. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component ADPatch. Such manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2026-83159. The attack can only be performed from a local environment. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as very critical, has been found in Oracle Applications DBA up to 12.2.15. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the component ADPatch. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Vulnerability in the Applications DBA product of Oracle E-Business Suite (component: ADPatch). Supported versions that are affected are 12.2.3-12.2.15. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Applications DBA executes to compromise Applications DBA. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Applications DBA. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 7.8 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

The advisory is shared for download at oracle.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-83159 since 08/31/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. 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 09/16/2026). 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

• Applications DBA

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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