Privilege escalation in Oracle Payroll

CVE-2026-61216

Vulnerability in the Oracle Payroll product of Oracle E-Business Suite (component: Payroll). 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 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 and unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Oracle Payroll. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 6.3 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L).

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

EPSS: 0.003 (17.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-61216?
CVE-2026-61216 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Oracle Payroll, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 6.3/10. Published 2026-07-21.
How severe is CVE-2026-61216?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.3 out of 10.