Cyber Resilience

CVE-2026-21938

Oracle Peoplesoft Enterprise Peopletools 8.60 … 8.62

Published
20 January 2026
Modified
29 January 2026
Patch / advisory
CVSS Score v3.1 6.1
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0020 10th percentile
Risk Priority 35 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2026-21938 is a medium-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Oracle Peoplesoft Enterprise Peopletools. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 10th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to AC-3 (Access Enforcement) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

Vulnerability in the PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools product of Oracle PeopleSoft (component: Portal). Supported versions that are affected are 8.60, 8.61 and 8.62. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools. Successful attacks…

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require human interaction from a person other than the attacker and while the vulnerability is in PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools, attacks may significantly impact additional products (scope change). Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 6.1 (Confidentiality and Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N).

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
Why these techniques?

Unauthenticated remote HTTP access to public-facing PeopleSoft Portal component enables direct exploitation of the web application.

Confidence: MEDIUM · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

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Affected Assets

oracle
peoplesoft enterprise peopletools
8.60, 8.61, 8.62

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)
  • SI-10 Information Input Validation
  • AC-3 Access Enforcement
  • SC-7 Boundary Protection
Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)

Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

prevent

Validates all HTTP inputs to the PeopleSoft Portal component, directly blocking the unauthenticated malicious requests that lead to unauthorized data modification and disclosure.

prevent

Enforces authentication and authorization checks on all Portal requests, preventing the unauthenticated network access path described in the CVE.

prevent

Applies boundary protections (e.g., WAF rules, allow-listing) to HTTP traffic targeting PeopleSoft, limiting exposure of the vulnerable Portal component.

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