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Is CVE-2024-20953 being exploited?

Confirmed exploited in the wild

CISA has evidence of active exploitation. This is not theoretical risk — someone has already used it against someone.

Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Deserialization Vulnerability

Oracle · Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)

CVSS 8.8 EPSS 3% no public exploit indexed Fix deadline passed 17 March 2025

What it is

Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) contains a deserialization vulnerability that allows a low-privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise the system.

Why we say that

  • CISA's federal remediation deadline (2025-03-17) has passed
  • Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue

Every line above comes from a named public source. Where the evidence is thin, we say so rather than inventing confidence — see methodology.

What to do

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

What it costs when this goes wrong

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