CVE-2026-60801: Oracle E-Business Intelligence Vulnerability

CVE-2026-60801 Overview

CVE-2026-60801 affects the Oracle E-Business Intelligence product within Oracle E-Business Suite, specifically the Internal Operations component. The flaw impacts supported versions 12.2.3 through 12.2.15. A high-privileged attacker with network access via HTTP can exploit this vulnerability to compromise Oracle E-Business Intelligence. Successful exploitation permits unauthorized creation, deletion, or modification of critical data, along with unauthorized read access to all Oracle E-Business Intelligence accessible data. Oracle published the fix in the July 2026 Critical Patch Update.

Critical Impact
Attackers with existing high privileges can compromise the confidentiality and integrity of all data accessible through Oracle E-Business Intelligence.

Affected Products

Oracle E-Business Suite — Oracle E-Business Intelligence, version 12.2.3
Oracle E-Business Suite — Oracle E-Business Intelligence, versions 12.2.4 through 12.2.14
Oracle E-Business Suite — Oracle E-Business Intelligence, version 12.2.15

Discovery Timeline

2026-07-21 - CVE-2026-60801 published to NVD
2026-07-21 - Last updated in NVD database
July 2026 - Oracle addresses the issue in the Oracle Security Advisory for July 2026

Technical Details for CVE-2026-60801

Vulnerability Analysis

The vulnerability resides in the Internal Operations component of Oracle E-Business Intelligence, a reporting and analytics module within Oracle E-Business Suite. Exploitation requires network access over HTTP and an authenticated session with high privileges within the target application. The attack complexity is high, indicating that successful exploitation depends on conditions outside the attacker's direct control, such as specific configuration states or timing.

Once exploited, the flaw grants the attacker read and write access to all data reachable by Oracle E-Business Intelligence. Availability is not affected, but confidentiality and integrity impacts are extensive. Oracle does not publish granular root-cause detail for E-Business Suite issues in its Critical Patch Updates.

Root Cause

Oracle has not released public technical detail describing the underlying defect. Based on the CVSS characterization, the flaw permits a privileged authenticated user to access or modify data beyond their intended authorization scope within Oracle E-Business Intelligence. This behavior is consistent with a broken access control or authorization bypass condition in a server-side operation exposed over HTTP.

Attack Vector

An attacker requires network reachability to the Oracle E-Business Suite HTTP endpoint and pre-existing high-privileged application credentials. Using an authenticated HTTP request against the Internal Operations component, the attacker triggers the vulnerable code path to read or modify data outside the intended authorization boundary. No user interaction is required, and the attack does not cross a security scope boundary.

Refer to the Oracle Security Advisory for July 2026 for vendor-supplied technical detail.

Detection Methods for CVE-2026-60801

Indicators of Compromise

Unexpected data modifications, deletions, or record creations within Oracle E-Business Intelligence tables performed by privileged accounts.
Anomalous HTTP requests targeting Internal Operations endpoints of Oracle E-Business Suite from unusual source IPs or during off-hours.
Privileged application user sessions that access unusually broad datasets in a single session.

Detection Strategies

Enable Oracle E-Business Suite Sign-On Audit and Page Access Tracking to log authenticated actions against Internal Operations pages.
Compare application server access logs against expected usage patterns for high-privileged roles.
Correlate database audit records with application session identifiers to detect out-of-band data access by privileged users.

Monitoring Recommendations

Alert on modifications to Oracle E-Business Intelligence configuration objects performed outside change-control windows.
Track failed and successful high-privileged logins to Oracle E-Business Suite and flag deviations from baseline.
Forward Oracle E-Business Suite application, HTTP, and database audit logs to a centralized analytics platform for retention and cross-source correlation.

How to Mitigate CVE-2026-60801

Immediate Actions Required

Apply the July 2026 Oracle Critical Patch Update to all Oracle E-Business Suite instances running versions 12.2.3 through 12.2.15.
Inventory Oracle E-Business Intelligence deployments and confirm patch level before returning systems to production.
Review and reduce the population of high-privileged accounts in Oracle E-Business Suite until patching is complete.

Patch Information

Oracle addressed CVE-2026-60801 in the Oracle Security Advisory for July 2026. Administrators should follow Oracle's documented patch application procedure for Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2.x and validate post-patch functionality of the E-Business Intelligence component.

Workarounds

Restrict network access to Oracle E-Business Suite HTTP endpoints to trusted management networks and VPN concentrators.
Rotate credentials for all high-privileged Oracle E-Business Suite accounts and enforce multi-factor authentication where supported.
Enable extended database and application auditing on the Internal Operations component until the patch is deployed.

bash

# Verify installed Oracle E-Business Suite patch level
sqlplus apps/<password> <<EOF
SELECT bug_number, last_update_date
FROM   apps.ad_bugs
WHERE  bug_number IN ('<July 2026 CPU patch IDs from Oracle advisory>')
ORDER  BY last_update_date DESC;
EOF