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Affects Oracle E-Business Suite Purchasing, a widely deployed enterprise ERP; remote takeover risk can disrupt financial and procurement operations across organizations.

ERP

CVE-2026-87163

8.8
High
EPSS n/aSep 17, 2026

Remote takeover of Oracle Purchasing via HTTP by low-privileged attacker.

common questions

Is CVE-2026-87163 being exploited?

Not confirmed. CVE-2026-87163 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-2026-87163?

CVE-2026-87163 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-2026-87163?

Not known from our data. No patch reference has been recorded for CVE-2026-87163, 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-2026-87163 affect?

CVE-2026-87163 affects Oracle E-Business Suite - Oracle Purchasing 12.2.3 to 12.2.15. Confirm the exact affected versions against the vendor advisory before deciding you are exposed.

What should I do about CVE-2026-87163?

Apply vendor patch/mitigations ASAP; restrict HTTP access, segment system, enable WAF and monitor logs.

Exploitation status reflects CISA's KEV catalog as we last synced it. Check the catalog directly.

executive summary
technical analysis
affected
Oracle E-Business Suite - Oracle Purchasing 12.2.3 to 12.2.15
impact

Remote compromise of Oracle Purchasing (low-priv attacker via HTTP) enabling full takeover, data theft, integrity loss and service disruption.

action required

Immediate action required

affected versions
Oracle Corporation Oracle Purchasing
  • 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.

how to fix
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