Oracle Database Server 10.1, 10.2, and 11g grants directory WRITE permissions for arbitrary pathnames that are aliased in a CREATE OR…

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.2% · top 17% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.1.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-264 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-264 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (5)

• http://www.oracleforensics.com/wordpress/index.php/2008/10/10/create-any-directory-to-sysdba/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• oracle-database-sysdba-privilege-escalation(48814) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 31738 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 20081011 CREATE ANY DIRECTORY to SYSDBA (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• http://www.oracleforensics.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/create-any-directory-to-sysdba.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 11:20 UTC.