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Critical Vulnerability in Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools

12 June 2026

Oracle has released security updates to address a critical vulnerability in Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools that could allow unauthenticated attackers to perform remote code execution and fully compromise the affected system. Patch immediately.

Background

Oracle has released security updates to address a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-35273) affecting the Updates Environment Management component of Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools. The vulnerability has a Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS v3.1) score of 9.8 out of 10. 

Impact

Due to missing authentication for a critical function in Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools Updates Environment Management, an unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP could send specially crafted requests to achieve remote code execution (RCE), potentially leading to full system compromise.

Known exploitation

This vulnerability is reportedly being actively exploited in the wild.

Affected Products 

The vulnerability affects Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools versions 8.61 and 8.62.

Recommendation

Users and administrators of affected products are advised to update the affected products to the latest version immediately.

References

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/alert-cve-2026-35273.html (opens in new tab)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-35273 (opens in new tab)

https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/shinyhunters-exploits-oracle-peoplesoft.html (opens in new tab)