Oh, *Great*. Another One.
Right, so some script kiddie decided to poke around in Oracle E-Business Suite and found a vulnerability – CVE-2025-61882. Basically, if you haven’t patched your ancient Oracle install (and let’s be honest, *you probably haven’t*), someone can potentially execute code remotely. It involves messing with the Forms application, specifically a parameter manipulation thing that lets them bypass security checks. Shocking. Absolutely shocking.
The SANS folks have looked at it and say it’s a pretty straightforward exploit – meaning anyone with half a brain and Google can probably pull this off. They’ve seen proof-of-concept code floating around, so expect the noise to get louder. They also point out that you need network access to the vulnerable system, which is… well, duh. It’s not like they’re breaking into Fort Knox here.
Bottom line: Patch your goddamn Oracle systems. Seriously. If you’re running anything pre-October 2024 CPU, you’re asking for trouble. And if you *can’t* patch? Well, enjoy cleaning up the mess when it inevitably happens. Don’t come crying to me.
They updated it because some other bright spark found more details about how this works and what versions are affected. Still the same basic story though: old Oracle = bad.
Speaking of ancient systems, I once had to deal with a Solaris 8 box running an Oracle database that hadn’t been touched since ’98. The sysadmin insisted it was “stable.” Stable like a house of cards in a hurricane, more like. Took me three days and enough caffeine to kill a small horse just to get a vulnerability scan to *complete* without crashing the whole thing. And then they wondered why I was so grumpy? Some people… honestly.
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