CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-1880
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-05-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-255
Description
The default configuration of Firebird before 2.0.3.12981.0-r6 on Gentoo Linux sets the ISC_PASSWORD environment variable before starting Firebird, which allows remote attackers to bypass SYSDBA authentication and obtain sensitive database information via an empty password.
Affected configurations
• firebird firebird (<= 2.0.3.12981.0)
• firebird firebird 2.0.3.12981.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216158 bugs.gentoo.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30162 Vendor Advisory
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-06.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29123 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42299 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216158 bugs.gentoo.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30162 Vendor Advisory
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-06.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29123 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42299 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com