CVE-2008-6065

Severity

51%

Complexity

49%

Confidentiality

106%

Oracle Database Server 10.1, 10.2, and 11g grants directory WRITE permissions for arbitrary pathnames that are aliased in a CREATE OR REPLACE DIRECTORY statement, which allows remote authenticated users with CREATE ANY DIRECTORY privileges to gain SYSDBA privileges by aliasing the pathname of the password directory, and then overwriting the password file through UTL_FILE operations, a related issue to CVE-2006-7141.

Oracle Database Server 10.1, 10.2, and 11g grants directory WRITE permissions for arbitrary pathnames that are aliased in a CREATE OR REPLACE DIRECTORY statement, which allows remote authenticated users with CREATE ANY DIRECTORY privileges to gain SYSDBA privileges by aliasing the pathname of the password directory, and then overwriting the password file through UTL_FILE operations, a related issue to CVE-2006-7141.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5.1. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

Oracle Database Server

First reported 16 years ago

2009-02-05 02:30:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-30 16:25:00

Affected Software

Oracle Database Server 10g 10.1

10.1

Oracle Database Server 10g 10.2

10.2

Oracle Database Server 11g

11

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