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CVE-2023-22047: Vulnerability in the PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools product of Oracle PeopleSoft (component: Portal).

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Plan (action score 53/100)

A ready-made attack module is public (Nuclei); exploiting it takes no special expertise.
Public proof-of-concept code exists (GitHub); there is no record of exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 76.9% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 99.5% of all records.
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
According to CISA the attack is automatable: targets can be found by mass scanning.
According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.

Add it to your regular patch cycle. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

Vulnerability in the PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools product of Oracle PeopleSoft (component: Portal). Supported versions that are affected are 8.59 and 8.60. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 7.5 (Confidentiality impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N).

HighCVSS 7.5 · v3.1—Proof of concept No fix recorded

BDU:2023-03991

Published: Jul 18, 2023
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 76.9% · 99th percentile
CWE: CWE-306

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Plan

Add it to your regular patch cycle.

CVSS: 30 / 40 · 7.5 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 23 / 30 · 76.9%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical impact: partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: —
CNA · oracle: 7.5; NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.

The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.

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Affected systems

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Vendor	Product	CPE
oracle	peoplesoft enterprise	cpe:2.3:a:oracle:peoplesoft_enterprise

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

oracle peoplesoft enterprise8.59
oracle peoplesoft enterprise8.60

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (oracle). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

Oracle Corporation PeopleSoft Enterprise PT PeopleTools
- 8.59, 8.60affected

Same product

oracle: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2005-3463Unspecified vulnerability in PeopleTools in Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise 8.44 up to 8.46.03 has unknown impact and attack vectors, as identi
42Plan
CVE-2007-2132Unspecified vulnerability in the PeopleTools component in Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise 8.47.12 and 8.48.08 has unknown impact and attack vec
41Plan
CVE-2007-2131Unspecified vulnerability in PeopleTools in Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise 8.22.14, 8.47.12, and 8.48.08 has unknown impact and attack vectors
41Plan

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2022-21602Oct 18, 2022 · Vulnerability in the PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools product of Oracle PeopleSoft (component: Portal).
21Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2022-21639Oct 18, 2022 · Vulnerability in the PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools product of Oracle PeopleSoft (component: Elastic Search Integration).
24Monitor
Later →CVE-2024-21283Oct 15, 2024 · Vulnerability in the PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM Global Payroll Core product of Oracle PeopleSoft (component: Global Payroll for Core).
32Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

Proof of concept available

A public proof of concept or detection signature exists. Exploit knowledge is out there; don't delay patching.

Evidence

Nuclei detection template ×1
Proof-of-concept repository on GitHub ×3

Noroxi does not host or link to exploit code. Metasploit module names and Nuclei template ids are shown (names, not code); Exploit-DB entries and PoC repositories are given as counts only.

Public exploit evidence
Source	Kind	Date
Nuclei detection template	Nuclei template CVE-2023-22047	—
Proof-of-concept repository on GitHub	stars:13	2025-04-02
Proof-of-concept repository on GitHub	stars:1	2026-08-15
Proof-of-concept repository on GitHub	stars:1	2026-08-15

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

PublishedJul 18, 2023
First PoCApr 2, 2025+623 d
TodayNov 7, 2026+1208 d

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
No account or password is required.
No user action is required.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality: high · data can be read
Integrity: none
Availability: none

Attack vector: Network
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: None
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality impact: High
Integrity impact: None
Availability impact: None

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-306 · Missing Authentication for Critical Function

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

nvd-secondary

Root cause

A function added for development or support ships to production without authentication. It often relies on the assumption that it is “only reachable from the internal network.”

The bug in code

The whole CWE-306 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

1// Added for the support team
2app.post("/maintenance/reset", resetDevice);

Fixed

1if (config.maintenanceEnabled) {
2  app.post(
3    "/maintenance/reset",
4    requireSession, requireRole("admin"), resetDevice
5  );
6}

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

Attack patterns (CAPEC)

ATT&CK techniques

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Change log

No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.

References

www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2023.html

Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.

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