Vulnerability in the Oracle Commerce Guided Search / Oracle Commerce Experience Manager product of Oracle Commerce (component: Content Acquisition System). The supported version that is affected is 11.4.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle Commerce Guided Search / Oracle Commerce Experience Manager. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all Oracle Commerce Guided Search / Oracle Commerce Experience Manager accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle Commerce Guided Search / Oracle Commerce Experience Manager. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 9.1 (Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H).
CVE-2026-70979
Score 9.1 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2026-08-18. a secondary CVSS source baseline 9.1; sources differ by 0.0.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 9.1
- EG Score
- 9.1(high)
- EG Risk
- 46(Track)EG Risk 46/100SSVC: Track
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity91% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability30% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 25%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
August 18, 2026
Last Modified
August 20, 2026
References (1)
- secalert_us@oraclehttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cspuaug2026.html
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-70979(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 23× in last 7d / 23× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-08-21 08:22 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-21 04:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-21 00:52 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-21 00:52 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-20 22:56 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-20 21:08 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-20 17:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-20 13:41 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-20 10:35 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-20 06:52 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-20 03:08 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-19 23:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-19 19:41 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-19 19:41 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-19 17:04 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-19 15:57 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-19 12:14 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-19 08:30 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-19 04:45 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-19 01:02 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-19 01:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-18 21:18 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-18 21:13 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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