Affects Oracle SOA Suite—widely used enterprise middleware; unauthenticated remote takeover risk with high impact.
CVE-2026-60538
Unauthenticated remote takeover of Oracle SOA Suite via Enterprise Scheduling System.
Is CVE-2026-60538 being exploited?
Not confirmed. CVE-2026-60538 does not appear in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, which records only exploitation that has been observed and reported publicly. That is evidence of absence of a report, not evidence the flaw is unattacked. EPSS currently estimates a 0.51% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.
How severe is CVE-2026-60538?
CVE-2026-60538 is rated Critical with a CVSS score of 9.8. Severity describes how bad exploitation would be, not how likely it is: pair it with exploitation evidence before deciding what to patch first.
Is there a patch for CVE-2026-60538?
Yes. A fix has been recorded for CVE-2026-60538. The vendor advisory is the authority on the exact fixed version — apply it from there rather than from a summary.
What does CVE-2026-60538 affect?
CVE-2026-60538 affects Oracle SOA Suite 12.2.1.4.0, Oracle SOA Suite 14.1.2.0.0, Oracle Fusion Middleware - Enterprise Scheduling System component. Confirm the exact affected versions against the vendor advisory before deciding you are exposed.
What should I do about CVE-2026-60538?
Isolate/limit HTTP access, apply vendor patch or mitigations immediately when released.
Exploitation status reflects CISA's KEV catalog as we last synced it. Check the catalog directly.
Unauthenticated attacker can remotely compromise/take over Oracle SOA Suite (full C/I/A loss) via HTTP.
Immediate action required
- affected12.2.1.4.0
- affected14.1.2.0.0
As published in the CVE Program record. A version outside these ranges is not a statement that it is unaffected — vendors sometimes understate a range, and distribution-backported builds carry upstream numbers that do not reflect what was patched into them.