Summary
CVE-2026-71015 is a critical vulnerability in the Endeca Application Controller component of Oracle Commerce Guided Search / Oracle Commerce Experience Manager, version 11.4.0. It allows an unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to gain unauthorized access to critical data and to create, delete, or modify data accessible to the application, without any user interaction. Oracle rates the issue CRITICAL with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.1.
Technical details
- Root cause: A flaw in the Endeca Application Controller component of Oracle Commerce Guided Search / Oracle Commerce Experience Manager that permits unauthorized data access and modification.
- Trigger conditions: No authentication or user interaction is required; the vulnerability is reachable over HTTP.
- Attack vector: Network (remote), low attack complexity, no privileges required.
- Impact: High confidentiality and integrity impact — unauthorized creation, deletion, or modification of critical data, or of all data accessible to the application. No availability impact.
Affected software
- Oracle Commerce Guided Search / Oracle Commerce Experience Manager, version 11.4.0 (Endeca Application Controller component)
Severity
- CVSS v3.1 Base Score: 9.1 (Critical)
- Vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Mitigation and recommended actions
- Immediate: Apply the Oracle Critical Security Patch Update for August 2026, which contains the fix for this vulnerability, to all deployments of Oracle Commerce Guided Search / Oracle Commerce Experience Manager version 11.4.0.
- If immediate patching is not possible: Restrict network access to the Endeca Application Controller component to trusted internal networks only, and monitor HTTP access logs for unexpected requests to this component until the patch can be applied.
How IONIX identifies potentially affected assets
IONIX matches the following signals against data already collected when it crawled the asset; identifying the technology sends no request beyond that crawl.
x-atg-versionresponse header:ATGPlatform/<version>- Raw HTTP response body: a tag containing
_dyncharset

