Affects Oracle E-Business Suite (widely used enterprise ERP); allows takeover of payroll — high-impact across organizations.
CVE-2026-60897
Remote takeover of Oracle Payroll in E-Business Suite 12.2.3–12.2.15
Is CVE-2026-60897 being exploited?
Not confirmed. CVE-2026-60897 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 0.43% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.
How severe is CVE-2026-60897?
CVE-2026-60897 is rated High with a CVSS score of 8.8. 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-2026-60897?
Yes. A fix has been recorded for CVE-2026-60897. The vendor advisory is the authority on the exact fixed version — apply it from there rather than from a summary.
What does CVE-2026-60897 affect?
CVE-2026-60897 affects Oracle E-Business Suite - Payroll component, Versions 12.2.3 through 12.2.15. Confirm the exact affected versions against the vendor advisory before deciding you are exposed.
What should I do about CVE-2026-60897?
Isolate Payroll, restrict HTTP access, apply vendor patch/workaround ASAP, enable WAF and enhanced logging.
Exploitation status reflects CISA's KEV catalog as we last synced it. Check the catalog directly.
Low-privileged attacker over HTTP can fully compromise Oracle Payroll, enabling data exfiltration, tampering, and service disruption.
Immediate action required
- affected>= 12.2.3 and <= 12.2.15
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.