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title: "CVE-2026-101681: Oracle E-Business Suite Applications DBA - Privilege Escalation"
description: "Oracle E-Business Suite Applications DBA 12.2.3-12.2.15 contains a privilege escalation caused by a difficult to exploit vulnerability in AD Utilities, letting low privileged attackers with infrastructure logon compromise Applications DBA, exploit requires attacker logon to infrastructure."
url: https://panop.io/threat-heartbeat/CVE-2026-101681/
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# CVE-2026-101681 Oracle E-Business Suite Applications DBA - Privilege Escalation

Oracle E-Business Suite Applications DBA 12.2.3-12.2.15 contains a privilege escalation caused by a difficult to exploit vulnerability in AD Utilities, letting low privileged attackers with infrastructure logon compromise Applications DBA, exploit requires attacker logon to infrastructure.

CVSS base score 7.0 /10

High

CISA KEV

Not listed

Public exploit

None known

Authentication

Required

[View the NVD record ↗](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-101681)

## Details

Type

Privilege Escalation

Impact

Privilege Escalation, Information Disclosure, Data Tampering, Denial Of Service

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Published

20 October 2026

Updated

21 October 2026

## Vendor fix

Update to a version later than 12.2.15 or apply Oracle's recommended patches.

Patching closes this CVE. It does not tell you which of your systems run the affected version, or what else is exposed alongside them.

## References

- [https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-101681](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-101681)
- [https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2026.html](https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2026.html)

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## What this record can't tell you

- Whether you run the affected software, and where
- Whether an attacker can actually reach and exploit it
- The misconfigurations that never get a CVE number
- What it would cost the business, ranked into what to fix first

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