CVE-2025-61882: 
Oracle E-Business Suite vulnerability analysis and mitigation

A critical vulnerability (CVE-2025-61882) was discovered in Oracle E-Business Suite's Concurrent Processing component, specifically in the BI Publisher Integration. The vulnerability affects versions 12.2.3-12.2.14 and was disclosed on October 4, 2025. This security flaw allows unauthenticated attackers with network access via HTTP to remotely compromise and take control of the Oracle Concurrent Processing component (Oracle Alert, NVD).

CVE-2025-61882 has been assigned a Critical CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8, indicating maximum impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The vulnerability vector is (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), which indicates network accessibility, low attack complexity, no privileges required, and no user interaction needed (NVD, Oracle Alert).

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can result in complete takeover of Oracle Concurrent Processing, potentially leading to remote code execution. The vulnerability affects the core functionality of Oracle E-Business Suite, putting critical business operations at risk (Oracle Alert, Hacker News).

Oracle has released emergency security updates to address CVE-2025-61882. The company strongly recommends that customers apply these updates immediately. The October 2023 Critical Patch Update is a prerequisite for applying these security updates (Oracle Alert).

Google-owned Mandiant described the activity as a 'high-volume email campaign' launched from hundreds of compromised accounts. Charles Carmakal, CTO of Mandiant at Google Cloud, emphasized the broad mass zero-day exploitation and advised organizations to examine whether they were already compromised, regardless of when the patch is applied (Hacker News).