Oracle Quality (E-Business Suite): Authorization flaw allows data manipulation
Summary
Oracle Quality, a module of Oracle E-Business Suite, contains a vulnerability in the Internal Operations component. An attacker with a low-privileged account and network access via HTTP can create, modify or delete critical quality data and access data accessible to the module. The NVD and Oracle score is 8.1 (High); VulDB rates it 6.3 and classifies it as a privilege management issue.
Affected
- Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Quality, supported versions 12.2.3 to 12.2.15
Fixed in
- Unknown from the available sources. Apply the October 2026 Critical Patch Update (CPU) and follow My Oracle Support Note KA923 for the EBS 12.2 patch set.
Workaround
- No specific Oracle workaround found.
- Restrict HTTP access to the EBS application tier and keep it off the public internet.
- Review low-privileged accounts, since exploitation requires an authenticated session.
Exploitation
- No evidence found of exploitation in the wild or public proof of concept for this CVE.
- CISA SSVC: Exploitation none, Automatable no, Technical Impact total.
- EPSS 0.00365 (low predicted exploitation probability).
- Not found in the CISA KEV catalog as of 21 October 2026, per a general statement covering the October CPU.
Our recommendation
- Check whether Oracle Quality is installed and whether the EBS application tier is reachable from the internet.
- Apply the October 2026 EBS CPU as a priority, especially for internet-facing systems, following KA923.
- Until patched, restrict HTTP access and review low-privileged accounts for unnecessary access.
- Monitor for unusual changes to quality or production data.
- Note that sources differ on severity (8.1 versus 6.3) and CWE (CWE-284 versus CWE-269); use the vendor score for prioritisation.
Public exploits
PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit and Exploit-DB list nothing for this CVE.
Research sources
- Oracle Critical Patch Update October 2026 www.oracle.com
- CVE record via Vulners vulners.com
- VulDB entry 423472 vuldb.com
- Oracle EBS Java CPU checker blog blogs.oracle.com
- Brandefense October 2026 CPU analysis brandefense.io
- SecurityOnline Oracle CPU October 2026 securityonline.info
Researched and written up in English and German by an AI (Claude by Anthropic) based on NVD, CISA, EPSS and the sources listed. The vendor information is authoritative. Researched on 1 Nov 2026, 18:22.
Original description (NVD)
Vulnerability in the Oracle Quality 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 Quality. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all Oracle Quality accessible data as well as unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle Quality accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 8.1 (Confidentiality and Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N).
NVD references (1)
Sources
The tracker combines official, freely usable data sources – updated continuously:
- NVD (NIST) – CVEs, rating (CVSS), affected products
- CISA KEV – vulnerabilities confirmed by CISA as actively exploited
- CISA Vulnrichment – CISA assessment (SSVC) in the official CVE record
- FIRST EPSS – probability of exploitation
- Microsoft MSRC – Patch Tuesday: vulnerabilities, severity, updates
- PoC-in-GitHub – public proof-of-concept repositories
- Metasploit (Rapid7) – modules of the Metasploit Framework
- Exploit-DB (OffSec) – archive of public exploits (links only)
- Patch days: official vendor pages (linked per vendor) (Vendor patch days)
This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS data © FIRST.org.
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