CVE-2025-61757 — Identity Manager
CRITICALCVE-2025-61757 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.8) Missing Authentication vulnerability in oracle identity manager. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2025-11-21) — treat it as actively exploited and patch now. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.
Vulnerability in the Identity Manager product of Oracle Fusion Middleware (component: REST WebServices). Supported versions that are affected are 12.2.1.4.0 and 14.1.2.1.0. Easily…
Exploitation Status
Actively exploited in the wild
- Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2025-11-21. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2025-12-12.
- CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
- A successful exploit gives an attacker total control of the affected component, not partial access.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA (KEV catalog and SSVC triage) for CVE-2025-61757.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2025-61757 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). In the shaded patch-first corner (EPSS 50%+, CVSS 7.0+).
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 395,249 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the 50–90% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.
Description
Vulnerability in the Identity Manager product of Oracle Fusion Middleware (component: REST WebServices). Supported versions that are affected are 12.2.1.4.0 and 14.1.2.1.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Identity Manager. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Identity Manager. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 9.8 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).
Affected Products
identity manageroracleResearch use only. For defensive security, authorized penetration testing, and academic research only. Never execute exploit code against systems without explicit written authorization.
Detection & mitigation playbook
Vendor / applianceDetect
Inventory every oracle identity manager deployment and check each version against the affected-products list above.
Remediation status
No patch has shipped for CVE-2025-61757 yet — track the oracle identity manager advisory for a fixed release and apply the workarounds below in the meantime.
Mitigate without a patch
Put an independent control in front of the weakness: restrict the affected endpoint or interface to trusted networks, require an additional authentication factor or proxy-level check, and invalidate existing sessions and credentials in case the flaw has already been used. Alongside that, restrict the management interface to trusted networks and apply the vendor's recommended configuration mitigations.
How to detect CVE-2025-61757
A community-maintained Nuclei template exists for this CVE. You can scan for it directly:
nuclei -id cve-2025-61757 -u https://target- Template
- Oracle Identity Manager REST WebServices - Authentication Bypass
- Severity
- critical
- Impact
- Allows unauthenticated attacker to fully compromise Oracle Identity Manager via HTTP(S), leading to complete loss of confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
- Remediation
- Apply the latest security updates released by Oracle as referenced in the October 2025 Critical Patch Update.
Template by ProjectDiscovery nuclei-templates (ritikchaddha), MIT licensed. View the full template. Scan only systems you are authorised to test.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2025-61757 being exploited in your environment?
Detect and block the exploit chain at execution, on systems you cannot patch yet.