Oracle July 2026 Critical Patch Update 1235 CVEs
Oracle addresses 1235 CVEs in its third quarterly update of 2026 with 1449 patches, including 261 critical updates.
Key Takeaways
- The third Critical Patch Update (CPU) for 2026 contains fixes for 1235 unique CVEs in 1449 security updates, the largest CPU release.
- 261 issues (18% of all patches) were assigned a critical severity rating
- Oracle E-Business Suite received the highest number of patches at 410, accounting for 28.3% of all patches
Background
On July 21, Oracle released its Critical Patch Update (CPU) for July 2026, the third quarterly update of the year. This CPU contains fixes for 1235 unique CVEs in 1449 security updates across 32 Oracle product families. Out of the 1449 security updates published this quarter, 18% of patches were assigned a critical severity. High severity patches accounted for the bulk of security patches at 52.7%, followed by medium severity patches at 24.7%.
This quarter’s update includes 261 critical patches across 228 CVEs.
| Severity | Issues Patched | CVEs |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | 261 | 228 |
| High | 763 | 613 |
| Medium | 358 | 332 |
| Low | 67 | 62 |
| Total | 1449 | 1235 |
Analysis
This quarter, the Oracle E-Business Suite product family contained the highest number of patches at 410, accounting for 28.3% of the total patches, followed by Oracle Fusion Middleware at 355 patches, which accounted for 24.5% of the total patches.
A full breakdown of the patches for this quarter can be seen in the following table, which also includes a count of vulnerabilities that can be exploited over a network without authentication.
| Oracle Product Family | Number of Patches | Remote Exploit without Auth |
|---|---|---|
| Oracle E-Business Suite | 410 | 45 |
| Oracle Fusion Middleware | 355 | 219 |
| Oracle Communications | 168 | 122 |
| Oracle PeopleSoft | 84 | 45 |
| Oracle MySQL | 54 | 9 |
| Oracle Siebel CRM | 45 | 32 |
| Oracle Commerce | 39 | 26 |
| Oracle Supply Chain | 39 | 16 |
| Oracle Financial Services Applications | 31 | 26 |
| Oracle GoldenGate | 27 | 9 |
| Oracle Enterprise Manager | 27 | 13 |
| Oracle Retail Applications | 22 | 20 |
| Oracle JD Edwards | 20 | 4 |
| Oracle Java SE | 19 | 17 |
| Oracle Virtualization | 16 | 0 |
| Oracle Database Server | 15 | 6 |
| Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database | 14 | 4 |
| Oracle Utilities Applications | 14 | 10 |
| Oracle Construction and Engineering | 7 | 7 |
| Oracle Analytics | 7 | 5 |
| Oracle Systems | 6 | 0 |
| Oracle SQL Developer | 5 | 5 |
| Oracle Autonomous Health Framework | 4 | 3 |
| Oracle Application Testing Suite | 4 | 4 |
| Oracle Food and Beverage Applications | 4 | 4 |
| Oracle HealthCare Applications | 4 | 4 |
| Oracle APEX | 3 | 2 |
| Oracle Hospitality Applications | 2 | 2 |
| Oracle Essbase | 1 | 1 |
| Oracle Global Lifecycle Management | 1 | 1 |
| Oracle NoSQL Database | 1 | 1 |
| Oracle Spatial Studio | 1 | 1 |
Solution
Customers are advised to apply all relevant patches in this quarter’s CPU. Please refer to the July 2026 advisory for full details.
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