Affects Oracle E-Business Suite (widely deployed ERP); network-exploitable privilege escalation that can alter critical financial/tax data across enterprises.
CVE-2026-60974
Network-exploitable privilege escalation in Oracle E-Business Tax allowing unauthorized data modification.
Is CVE-2026-60974 being exploited?
Not confirmed. CVE-2026-60974 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 0.34% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.
How severe is CVE-2026-60974?
CVE-2026-60974 is rated High with a CVSS score of 8.1. 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-2026-60974?
Yes. A fix has been recorded for CVE-2026-60974. The vendor advisory is the authority on the exact fixed version — apply it from there rather than from a summary.
What does CVE-2026-60974 affect?
CVE-2026-60974 affects Oracle E-Business Suite - E-Business Tax (versions 12.2.3–12.2.15). Confirm the exact affected versions against the vendor advisory before deciding you are exposed.
What should I do about CVE-2026-60974?
Restrict HTTP access to EBS, apply vendor patch/mitigation ASAP, review logs and backup critical tax data.
Exploitation status reflects CISA's KEV catalog as we last synced it. Check the catalog directly.
Low-privileged remote attacker via HTTP can create, delete, or modify critical Oracle E-Business Tax data and access all tax-related records.
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.