Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2.3–12.2.14 – Remote Code Execution

Exploited in the wild. Listed by CISA on 2025-10-06; known to be used by ransomware.

criticalseverity

99.7%likelihood of exploitation, next 30 days

100%of all CVEs are less likely

Readycheck to confirm it

Oracle Concurrent Processing 12.2.3-12.2.14 contains a remote code execution caused by unauthenticated network access via HTTP, letting unauthenticated attackers fully compromise the system, exploit requires network access via HTTP.

Impact

Unauthenticated attackers can fully compromise Oracle Concurrent Processing, leading to complete system takeover.

Fix

Update to the latest available version beyond 12.2.14.

How to confirm it

Send: POST /OA_HTML/SyncServlet
Positive when: contains "RespURI" and "Final" and "sid" AND status 200
Send: GET /OA_HTML/help/../ieshostedsurvey.jsp
Positive when: status_code == 200 and contains(body, '$Header: ieshostedsurvey.jsp')

Run it with nuclei: nuclei -id CVE-2025-61882 -u <target>

The full check

id: CVE-2025-61882

info:
  name: Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2.3–12.2.14 – Remote Code Execution
  author: testanull,watchtowr,DhiyaneshDk,pussycat0x
  severity: critical
  description: |
    Oracle Concurrent Processing 12.2.3-12.2.14 contains a remote code execution caused by unauthenticated network access via HTTP, letting unauthenticated attackers fully compromise the system, exploit requires network access via HTTP.
  impact: |
    Unauthenticated attackers can fully compromise Oracle Concurrent Processing, leading to complete system takeover.
  remediation: |
    Update to the latest available version beyond 12.2.14.
  reference:
    - https://labs.watchtowr.com/well-well-well-its-another-day-oracle-e-business-suite-pre-auth-rce-chain-cve-2025-61882well-well-well-its-another-day-oracle-e-business-suite-pre-auth-rce-chain-cve-2025-61882/
    - https://github.com/watchtowrlabs/watchTowr-vs-Oracle-E-Business-Suite-CVE-2025-61882
    - https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/alert-cve-2025-61882.html
    - https://blogs.oracle.com/security/post/apply-july-2025-cpu
    - https://vred.mbbank.com.vn/p/oracle-e-business-suite-authentication
    - https://gist.github.com/testanull/a897473577b8650932221172e50304ce#file-ebs_cve-2025-61882_poc-py
  metadata:
    verified: true
    max-request: 1
    fofa-query: title="E-Business Suite"
  tags: cve,cve2025,oracle,ebusiness,lfi,rce,ssrf,kev,vkev,vuln

variables:
  payload: "sysadmin:INVALID"

flow: http(1) || http(2)

http:
  - raw:
      - |
        POST /OA_HTML/SyncServlet HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        Content-Type: application/vnd.syncml+xml

        <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
        <SyncML>
          <SyncHdr>
            <VerDTD>1.1</VerDTD>
            <VerProto>SyncML/1.1</VerProto>
            <SessionID> 1</SessionID>
            <MsgID>1</MsgID>
            <Target><LocURI>http://localhost</LocURI></Target>
            <Source><LocURI>device-123</LocURI></Source>
            <Cred>
              <Meta>
                <Format>b64</Format>
                <Type>syncml:auth-basic</Type>
              </Meta>
              <Data>{{base64(payload)}}</Data>
            </Cred>
          </SyncHdr>
          <SyncBody>
            <Alert>
              <CmdID>1</CmdID>
              <Data>200</Data>
            </Alert>
            <Final/>
          </SyncBody>
        </SyncML>

    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: body
        words:
          - "RespURI"
          - "Final"
          - "sid"
        condition: and

      - type: status
        status:
          - 200

    extractors:
      - type: regex
        name: sid
        part: body
        group: 1
        regex:
          - 'sid%3([A-Za-z0-9]+)%26device'

  - raw:
      - |
        GET /OA_HTML/help/../ieshostedsurvey.jsp HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}

    matchers:
      - type: dsl
        name: lfi
        dsl:
          - "status_code == 200"
          - "contains(body, '$Header: ieshostedsurvey.jsp')"
        condition: and

References

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