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The critical Oracle PeopleSoft bug that ShinyHunters has exploited since May is not one flaw but three chained together, the researchers who reported it said this week.

Oracle patched all three under a single identifier, CVE-2026-35273, in June. Its root is a server-side request forgery (SSRF) that reaches an internal management interface because PeopleSoft trusts its own loopback address by default, opening the door to remote code execution without a login.

The breakdown comes from Bobby Gould of the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), whose team reported the flaw to Oracle.

In its analysis, ZDI said it reported three distinct vulnerabilities across two PeopleSoft components, and that it is working with Oracle to assign a separate CVE to each. As of this week, the one June identifier is still the only one on the record.

CVE-2026-35273 affects PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools versions 8.61 and 8.62, carries a CVSS score of 9.8, and lets an unauthenticated attacker take over the server over the network. Oracle released its fix in an out-of-band security alert on June 10. The flaw is on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

Attackers were already using it before that fix was in place. Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) attribute a campaign to the group it tracks as UNC6240, better known as ShinyHunters, that exploited the flaw between May 27 and June 9, mostly against universities. Because that activity came before Oracle's June 10 advisory, it was a zero-day the whole time.

In a September follow-up, Mandiant reported a renewed, larger wave that spread beyond education to technology, IT services, healthcare, agriculture, transport, and government, affecting dozens of systems worldwide.

ZDI's analysis explains what that single patch actually closed. Two PeopleSoft components are involved, both run as separate web applications. The Integration Gateway (PSIGW) exchanges messages with outside systems. The Environment Management Hub (PSEMHUB) is an internal admin interface that is supposed to answer only to trusted hosts.

The first flaw is the SSRF in PSIGW. An attacker sends a request to its listening connector and controls both the address it forwards to and the full payload it sends, ZDI said; the handler does no check that the destination is a legitimate target. That alone would be limited, except for what it can reach.