Improper access control in Oracle Engineering
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- High
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-284.
Summary
Vulnerability in the Oracle Engineering product of Oracle E-Business Suite (component: Internal Operations). Supported versions that are affected are 12.2.3-12.2.15. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle Engineering. While the vulnerability is in Oracle Engineering, attacks may significantly impact additional products (scope change). Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all Oracle Engineering accessible data as well as unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle Engineering accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 8.2 (Confidentiality and Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N).
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Fixed in the same release
Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.
- Advisory ·
Oracle Engineering — oracle.com/security-alerts/cspusep2026.html
2 records Highest priority Priority LOW 2 LOW
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2026-57624 Information disclosure in Oracle EngineeringPriority LOW 34
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-83438
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-8fgq-qmg8-5c9g
References
Advisory 1
More Oracle E-business Suite vulnerabilities
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- TI-2022-05967 Missing authentication in Oracle Web Applications Desktop Integrator KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2022-05884 Vulnerability in Oracle E-Business Suite (component: Manage Proxies). CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2021-20437 Apache Log4j2 does not always protect from infinite recursion in lookup evaluation CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.9
- TI-2004-00351 Heap-based buffer overflow in Oracle 9i Application Server Web Cache 9.0.4.0.0… CVSS 2.0HIGH 10.0
- TI-2006-00279 Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Oracle Application Server 6.0.8.26(PS17) and… CVSS 2.0HIGH 10.0
Sources
- CVE-2026-83438 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-83438 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-8fgq-qmg8-5c9g · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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