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CVE-2026-35273
· EUVD no mirror located
· GCVE no mirror located
Verified 2026-08-04
Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools vulnerability
Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools contains a missing authentication for critical function vulnerability which could allow an unauthenticated attacker to obtain takeover of PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools.
Verdict
Today item, not a backlog item.
Known-exploited and flagged for ransomware use. If you run an exposed, unpatched instance, assume-breach is the correct posture — not a patch window.
CISA KEV Yes · 2026-06-125Ransomware use Flagged5EPSS 0.95473 (verify live)6CVSS 9.83CISA SSVC Exploitation: active · Automatable: yes · Impact: total4Exploit Public PoC / detection · nuclei template16
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Is it exploitable?
— the evidence, ranked above the scoreReported exploitation
13 independent public reports of in-the-wild exploitation are cataloged.Distinct reporting sources (vendor, incident response, government); open them for the underlying claims.
Exploited in the wild
Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2026-06-12), flagged for known ransomware use.
Probability (EPSS)
EPSS 0.95473 — modeled likelihood of exploitation activity.EPSS is a daily-changing model output — open the source for today's value.
Severity / affected
CVSS 9.8 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H) · Affected: Oracle, PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools. Confirm exact fixed builds in the vendor advisory.CVSS — CNA-assigned (CVE.org), version 3.1, set at disclosure.
Weakness (CWE)
Mapped to CWE-306 Missing Authentication — weakness family: Authentication.CWE assignment from the public NVD record (may be stale); the weakness class drives how the flaw is exploited.
CISA SSVC (triage disposition)
Exploitation: active · Automatable: yes · Technical Impact: totalCISA's own stakeholder-specific triage inputs, published in the CVE record (CISA Coordinator role). NOTE: this is CISA's three decision points; the final Act/Attend/Track decision also requires a Mission & Well-being input not published here, so no overall decision is asserted.
Currency of the record
CISA added this to its KEV catalog 1 day after the CVE record was published.KEV lag = CISA-KEV dateAdded − CVE.org datePublished; a floor on how long the known-exploited flaw sat in the public record before the federal catalog listed it. Severity/weakness here is CNA- or CISA-assigned (current at disclosure), independent of NVD's analysis backlog.
Public exploit available
Public exploit tooling is catalogued for this CVE (a public proof-of-concept / detection template). Catalog entries: nuclei template. We link the catalog page(s) only — no payload or code is hosted or restated here.Link, never host — the catalog page is the source; basicsecurity.net does not redistribute payloads.
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Who’s exploiting it?
— attribution turns risk into urgencyAttribution not established
No confirmed (advisory-backed) threat-actor attribution is established for this record. Absence of a named actor is not absence of compromise — see Coverage & confidence.
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Why it matters
— the attack path, told twice: adversary, then boardAttacker/business narrative framing is pending triage for this record — see Coverage & confidence below. Facts and verdict above are derived deterministically from the public feed.
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What to do
— defensible action- Remediate per the vendor advisory — confirm the fixed build for your version and verify exposure.1
Say it to the boardA vulnerability with this evidence profile is a defensible budget line, not a backlog ticket — fund the change against the proof above.
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