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Exploited in the wild High confidence Not in CISA KEV

CVE-2016-0457

E-Business Suite Denial of Service

Oracle / E-Business Suite

Severity
CVSS 5.0 · Medium
Confidence
High
Exploit status
Exploited in the wild
EPSS
3.9%
First observed
Last observed

Decision summary

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What it is

CVE-2016-0457 is an unauthenticated vulnerability affecting Oracle E-Business Suite. Unspecified vulnerability in the Application Mgmt Pack for E-Business Suite component in Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1 and 12.2...

Is it exploited?

Yes. KEVIntel tracks this CVE as a known exploited vulnerability. Confidence is high.

Who is affected?

Oracle / E-Business Suite.

What should we do?

Prioritize remediation. Validate affected assets and apply vendor fixes on an accelerated timeline.

Overview

E-Business Suite Denial of Service

Unspecified vulnerability in the Application Mgmt Pack for E-Business Suite component in Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1 and 12.2 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality via vectors related to REST Framework, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-0456. NOTE: the previous information is from the January 2016 CPU.

Oracle has not commented on third-party claims that this issue is an XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files, cause a denial of service, conduct server-side request forgery (SSRF) attacks, or conduct SMB Relay attacks via a crafted DTD in an XML request to OA_HTML/lcmServiceController.jsp.

Published
21 Jan 2016
Exploitation Reported
26 Jul 2025
Attack vector
Remote
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction

CVE References

Exploitation evidence

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Exploited in the wild

The Shadowserver

Recorded 26 Jul 2025

Independent exploitation attestation added to the KEVIntel record.

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Source Added
The Shadowserver First 2025-07-26 00:00 UTC

Detection

Operational artifacts and observed signals

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Observed signals

Request targets
0
User-Agents
0

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Scanner coverage

No scanner integrations recorded yet.

Virtual patch status

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No detection artifacts or sensor request patterns are available for this CVE yet.

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Risk and context

Severity, weaknesses, and research context

CVSS v2.0

5.0 Medium
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

EPSS

3.9%

Timeline

From disclosure to observed exploitation

  1. Added to KEVIntel KEV Feed

    High-confidence, third-party attested exploitation

  2. CVE published

    Vulnerability disclosed publicly

  3. CVE ID reserved

    Identifier reserved by the CNA

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{
  "cve_id": "CVE-2016-0457",
  "confidence": "High",
  "cvss_score": 5.0,
  "epss_score": 0.0392,
  "exploit_status": {
    "exploited_in_the_wild": true,
    "active_exploitation_observed": false
  },
  "sensor_telemetry": { "attempts": 0, "sensors": 0 }
}

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