Affects Oracle E-Business Suite (widely used enterprise ERP); local privilege escalation can lead to takeover and cross-module impact.
CVE-2026-70941
Local privilege escalation in Oracle EBS Payroll allowing module takeover.
Is CVE-2026-70941 being exploited?
Not confirmed. CVE-2026-70941 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 0.15% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.
How severe is CVE-2026-70941?
CVE-2026-70941 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-2026-70941?
Yes. A fix has been recorded for CVE-2026-70941. The vendor advisory is the authority on the exact fixed version — apply it from there rather than from a summary.
What does CVE-2026-70941 affect?
CVE-2026-70941 affects Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), Oracle Payroll 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-2026-70941?
Apply vendor patch/mitigations ASAP; restrict access to Payroll hosts and monitor logs.
Exploitation status reflects CISA's KEV catalog as we last synced it. Check the catalog directly.
Low‑privileged local user can escalate privileges to fully compromise Oracle Payroll and potentially other EBS components (C/I/A high).
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.