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title: "CVE-2026-83118: 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 vulnerability caused by insufficient access control in AD Utilities, letting low privileged attackers with logon compromise Applications DBA, exploit requires attacker logon to infrastructure."
url: https://panop.io/threat-heartbeat/CVE-2026-83118/
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# CVE-2026-83118 Oracle E-Business Suite Applications DBA - Privilege Escalation

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

CVSS base score 7.8 /10

High

CISA KEV

Not listed

Public exploit

None known

Authentication

Required

EPSS

0.14% chance of exploitation in 30 days

[View the NVD record ↗](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-83118)

## Details

Type

Privilege Escalation

Impact

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

CVSS vector

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

Published

15 September 2026

Updated

15 October 2026

Weakness

[CWE-269](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/269.html)

## Vendor fix

Update to the latest available version of Oracle E-Business Suite Applications DBA.

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-2026-83118](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-83118)
- [https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cspusep2026.html](https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cspusep2026.html)

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- 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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