GoKawiilOver 900 Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) instances have been found exposed online amid ongoing attacks exploiting a critical security flaw.
The vulnerability (tracked as CVE-2026-46817) was found in the File Transmission component of EBS's Oracle Payments product and allows malicious actors without privileges and with HTTP network access to take over vulnerable systems through low-complexity attacks.
Oracle has patched this flaw with security updates released as part of its May 2026 Critical Security Patch Update and urged customers to patch their systems immediately.
While the company has yet to flag this flaw as exploited in attacks, threat intelligence company Defused warned on Monday that threat actors are now actively exploiting it, with the first attempts spotted over the weekend.
"CVE-2026-46817 (CVSS 9.8 unauth HTTP takeover in Oracle E-Business) is being exploited. Over the weekend, we observed an actor exploiting the vulnerability on our Oracle E-Business honeypots. This vulnerability has no known previous exploitation and no public POC code exists," Defused noted.
Earlier today, internet security watchdog Shadowserver also warned that it tracks around 950 Oracle EBS instances exposed online. However, there is no information regarding how many of these systems have been secured against CVE-2026-46817 attacks.
Oracle EBS instances exposed online (Shadowserver)
Last month, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) also tagged a high-severity Oracle WebLogic Server flaw (CVE-2024-21182) patched two years ago as actively exploited in the wild.
Weeks later, Oracle mitigated a critical PeopleSoft Suite zero-day (CVE-2026-35273) that was exploited by the ShinyHunters extortion gang to gain unauthenticated remote code execution between May 27 and June 9 and to steal data from many organizations worldwide, including Nottingham University and the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC).
Most recently, Nissan also warned of a data breach affecting current and former employees following the compromise of its Oracle PeopleSoft instance.
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