# Cl0p extortion campaign via Oracle E-Business Suite zero-day (CVE-2025-61882) · pwn.watch

> Cl0p-branded extortion emails reached executives from September 29, 2025, claiming theft of Oracle E-Business Suite data. Mandiant tied the campaign to exploitation of an unauthenticated RCE in EBS (SyncServlet), patched as CVE-2025-61882 for EBS 12.2.3 to 12.2.14. A separate July UiServlet SSRF campaign was later tracked as CVE-2025-61884.

Page: https://pwn.watch/i/oracle-ebs-cl0p-extortion-cve-2025-61882 · generated 2026-10-22T20:45:43.249Z

## Status
- Severity: critical · status: closed · patch: patched
- Product: Oracle E-Business Suite
- Started: 2025-09-29 · closed: 2025-10-20
- CVEs: CVE-2025-61882
- Affected: Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2.3 to 12.2.14
- Fixed in: Oracle Security Alert for CVE-2025-61882 (requires the October 2023 CPU as a prerequisite)

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## Updates (newest first)
- 2025-10-20: CISA adds the related EBS SSRF flaw CVE-2025-61884 to KEV (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-confirms-hackers-exploited-oracle-e-business-suite-ssrf-flaw/)
- 2025-10-06: CISA adds CVE-2025-61882 to KEV
- 2025-10-04: Oracle publishes a Security Alert for CVE-2025-61882 (https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/alert-cve-2025-61882.html)
- 2025-09-29: Cl0p-branded extortion emails start arriving at executives (https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/oracle-ebusiness-suite-zero-day-exploitation)

## Fix brief
# Security brief: Cl0p extortion campaign via Oracle E-Business Suite zero-day (CVE-2025-61882)

Source: https://pwn.watch/i/oracle-ebs-cl0p-extortion-cve-2025-61882 · status: closed (closed Oct 20, 2025) · severity: critical · updated Oct 20, 2025

## Patch status
**PATCHED: fixed releases exist. Upgrade to a fixed version.**

## What it is
Cl0p-branded extortion emails reached executives from September 29, 2025, claiming theft of Oracle E-Business Suite data. Mandiant tied the campaign to exploitation of an unauthenticated RCE in EBS (SyncServlet), patched as CVE-2025-61882 for EBS 12.2.3 to 12.2.14. A separate July UiServlet SSRF campaign was later tracked as CVE-2025-61884.

Severity detail: Unauthenticated RCE zero-day; mass data theft and extortion; CISA KEV; known ransomware use

- Product: Oracle E-Business Suite
- CVE / advisory ids: CVE-2025-61882

## Affected versions
- Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2.3 to 12.2.14

## Check whether you're affected
No generic command applies (the product is a hosted service, appliance or desktop app). Check the installed version in its admin UI / About screen and compare with the versions above.

## Fix
Upgrade to one of these fixed versions (or later on the same branch):
- Oracle Security Alert for CVE-2025-61882 (requires the October 2023 CPU as a prerequisite)

After upgrading, re-run the checks above and redeploy/restart the affected services.

## Latest updates
- Oct 20, 2025: CISA adds the related EBS SSRF flaw CVE-2025-61884 to KEV
- Oct 6, 2025: CISA adds CVE-2025-61882 to KEV
- Oct 4, 2025: Oracle publishes a Security Alert for CVE-2025-61882
- Sep 29, 2025: Cl0p-branded extortion emails start arriving at executives

## Advisories
- [Oracle Security Alert CVE-2025-61882](https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/alert-cve-2025-61882.html) (Oracle)
- [NVD: CVE-2025-61882](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-61882) (NVD)
- [CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog](https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog) (CISA)

## Write-ups & news
- [Oracle E-Business Suite Zero-Day Exploited in Widespread Extortion Campaign](https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/oracle-ebusiness-suite-zero-day-exploitation)
- [CrowdStrike Identifies Campaign Targeting Oracle E-Business Suite via Zero-Day](https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/crowdstrike-identifies-campaign-targeting-oracle-e-business-suite-zero-day-CVE-2025-61882/)
- [Clop extortion emails claim theft of Oracle E-Business Suite data](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/clop-extortion-emails-claim-theft-of-oracle-e-business-suite-data/)

## Caveats
Oracle alert Rev 1 was released 2025-10-04 (CVSS 9.8; credits CrowdStrike and Mandiant). CVE-2025-61884 has its own KEV entry.

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