CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-6065
5.1 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-02-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.1 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• oracle database server 10.1
• oracle database server 10.2
• oracle database server 11
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://www.oracleforensics.com/wordpress/index.php/2008/10/10/create-any-directory-to-sysdba/ www.oracleforensics.com
- http://www.oracleforensics.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/create-any-directory-to-sysdba.pdf www.oracleforensics.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497286/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31738 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48814 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://www.oracleforensics.com/wordpress/index.php/2008/10/10/create-any-directory-to-sysdba/ www.oracleforensics.com
- http://www.oracleforensics.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/create-any-directory-to-sysdba.pdf www.oracleforensics.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497286/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31738 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48814 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com