CVE-2026-70840 Privilege escalation in Oracle Hyperion Financial Management
A low-privileged attacker with local access can escalate privileges to read, create, delete, or modify critical data in Oracle Hyperion Financial Management.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2026-70840?
CVE-2026-70840 is a high-severity vulnerability in Oracle Hyperion Financial Management, 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 Hyperion Financial Management product of Oracle Hyperion (component: Security). The supported version that is affected is 11.2.25.0.000. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle Hyperion Financial Management executes to compromise Oracle Hyperion Financial Management. While the vulnerability is in Oracle Hyperion Financial Management, 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 Hyperion Financial Management accessible data as well as unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle Hyperion Financial Management accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 8.4 (Confidentiality and Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N).
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-70840?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Oracle Hyperion Financial Management.
How do I fix CVE-2026-70840?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-70840 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2026-70840 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-70840 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Oracle Hyperion Financial Management
- CVE-2026-87230 Missing authorization in Oracle Hyperion Financial Management
- CVE-2026-70921 Missing authorization in Oracle Hyperion Financial Management
- CVE-2012-1714 Code injection in n/a
- CVE-2026-87172 Privilege escalation in Oracle Hyperion Financial Management
- CVE-2026-70920 Auth bypass in Oracle Hyperion Financial Management
Sources
Also known as GHSA-5v7h-m8hj-6h87.