CISA has ordered US federal agencies to patch against an actively exploited Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) flaw within three weeks – a scramble made more urgent by evidence that attackers may have been abusing the bug months before a fix was released.
The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-61757 and now sitting in CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, is “easily exploitable” and allows an unauthenticated attacker with network access to compromise OIM, enabling a full takeover of the system.
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Source: The Register News
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