Affects widely deployed Oracle E-Business Suite HRMS module with high CVSS and scope change risk; enterprise-wide HR data exposure could disrupt organizations.
CVE-2026-87161
Authenticated network vulnerability in Oracle EBS HRMS (India) enabling data access and modification.
Is CVE-2026-87161 being exploited?
Not confirmed. CVE-2026-87161 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.
How severe is CVE-2026-87161?
CVE-2026-87161 is rated High with a CVSS score of 8.5. 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-2026-87161?
Not known from our data. No patch reference has been recorded for CVE-2026-87161, which is not the same as no patch existing — a fix may have shipped without a tagged reference, or after this record was written. The vendor advisory is the only authority on whether a fix exists, and mitigations may be available regardless.
What does CVE-2026-87161 affect?
CVE-2026-87161 affects Oracle E-Business Suite HRMS (India) 12.2.3-12.2.15, Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS). Confirm the exact affected versions against the vendor advisory before deciding you are exposed.
What should I do about CVE-2026-87161?
Apply vendor update/mitigation ASAP; restrict HTTP access to HRMS; review logs and rotate creds.
Exploitation status reflects CISA's KEV catalog as we last synced it. Check the catalog directly.
Low-privileged attacker via HTTP can read all HRMS-accessible data and perform limited write/delete, with potential impact to other EBS components.
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.