Oracle Payroll up to 12.2.15 Internal Operations privileges management

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A vulnerability was found in Oracle Payroll up to 12.2.15. It has been rated as critical. This affects an unknown function of the component Internal Operations. This manipulation causes privileges management. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-101709. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability has been found in Oracle Payroll up to 12.2.15 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown function of the component Internal Operations. 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 Payroll product of Oracle E-Business Suite (component: Internal Operations). 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 Payroll. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker and while the vulnerability is in Oracle Payroll, attacks may significantly impact additional products (scope change). Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Oracle Payroll accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle Payroll accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 5.4 (Confidentiality and Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N).

The advisory is shared at oracle.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-101709 since 09/28/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. 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 $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

• Payroll

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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