Oracle Identity Manager Flaw: The Cybersecurity Nightmare Keeping IT Teams Awake
CISA has added a critical security flaw, CVE-2025-61757, affecting Oracle Identity Manager to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. This vulnerability allows unauthenticated remote attackers to take over systems, thanks to a faulty filter bypass. Agencies must patch up by December 12, or risk becoming the punchline in a cyber-attack joke.
Hot Take:
Oh Oracle, where art thou security? In what can only be described as the ‘Swiss cheese of vulnerabilities,’ Oracle Identity Manager has found itself in hot water yet again. This time, it’s a critical flaw that’s as gaping as the plot holes in a soap opera. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this bug is more famous than a reality TV star—everyone’s trying to exploit it! Kudos to CISA for adding it to their KEV catalog; it’s basically the walk of shame for software vulnerabilities. Will Oracle tighten its defenses, or are we destined for a sequel? Stay tuned for the next episode of ‘As The Code Compiles.’
Key Points:
- Critical vulnerability CVE-2025-61757 affects Oracle Identity Manager.
- Flaw allows remote code execution without authentication.
- Discovered by Searchlight Cyber researchers, exploited actively.
- Federal agencies must patch by December 12, 2025.
- Honeypot logs suggest zero-day exploitation attempts.