Oracle Helidon up to 3.2.21/4.5.5 helidon-security-providers-idcs-mapper privileges management

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Oracle Helidon up to 3.2.21/4.5.5. Affected is an unknown function of the component helidon-security-providers-idcs-mapper. Performing a manipulation results in privileges management. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-101571. Attacking locally is a requirement. No exploit is available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Oracle Helidon up to 3.2.21/4.5.5. This affects some unknown processing of the component helidon-security-providers-idcs-mapper. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Vulnerability in the Helidon product of Oracle Fusion Middleware (component: helidon-security-providers-idcs-mapper). Supported versions that are affected are 3.0.0-3.2.21 and 4.0.0-4.5.5. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Helidon executes to compromise Helidon. While the vulnerability is in Helidon, attacks may significantly impact additional products (scope change). Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Helidon accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 5.6 (Confidentiality impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N).

The advisory is shared at oracle.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-101571 since 09/28/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 10/21/2026). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• Oracle

Name

• Helidon

Version

• 3.2.0
• 3.2.1
• 3.2.2
• 3.2.3
• 3.2.4
• 3.2.5
• 3.2.6
• 3.2.7
• 3.2.8
• 3.2.9
• 3.2.10
• 3.2.11
• 3.2.12
• 3.2.13
• 3.2.14
• 3.2.15
• 3.2.16
• 3.2.17
• 3.2.18
• 3.2.19
• 3.2.20
• 3.2.21
• 4.5.0
• 4.5.1
• 4.5.2
• 4.5.3
• 4.5.4
• 4.5.5

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.oracle.com

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