# CVE-2026-70796: Missing authorization in Oracle General Ledger

> High-privileged attackers can bypass authorization to read, create, delete, or modify critical financial data in Oracle General Ledger.

- **Severity:** High 7.2 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 18 Aug 2026
- **Updated:** 25 Aug 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-74m6-ggp4-6h9x

## What is CVE-2026-70796?

CVE-2026-70796 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Oracle General Ledger, published on 18 Aug 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Vulnerability in the Oracle General Ledger product of Oracle E-Business Suite (component: Internal Operations).  Supported versions that are affected are 12.2.3-12.2.15. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle General Ledger executes to compromise Oracle General Ledger.  While the vulnerability is in Oracle General Ledger, attacks may significantly impact additional products (scope change).  Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in  unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all Oracle General Ledger accessible data as well as  unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle General Ledger accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 7.2 (Confidentiality and Integrity impacts).  CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N).

Weakness: CWE-284 (Improper Access Control)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-70796?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Oracle General Ledger.

## How do I fix CVE-2026-70796?

No fix has been published for CVE-2026-70796 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2026-70796 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-70796 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Oracle General Ledger

- [CVE-2019-2638](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-2638/): Missing authorization in General Ledger (critical 9.9)
- [CVE-2026-70686](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-70686/): Auth bypass in Oracle General Ledger (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2021-2237](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-2237/): Missing authorization in General Ledger (high 8.1)
- [CVE-2026-60748](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-60748/): Missing authorization in Oracle General Ledger (high 7.6)
- [CVE-2026-70764](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-70764/): Missing authorization in Oracle General Ledger (high 7.6)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2026-70796 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2026-70796 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Oracle General Ledger, published on 18 Aug 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-70796 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Oracle General Ledger. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-70796/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-70796/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-70796
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-70796
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-70796

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