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CVE-2001-0943

dbsnmp in Oracle 8.0.5 and 8.1.5, under certain conditions, trusts the PATH environment variable to find and execute the (1) chown or (2) chgrp commands, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code by modifying the PATH to point to Trojan Horse programs.

Published

2001-08-31T04:00:00.000

Last Modified

2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 7.2 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Access Vector: LOCAL
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: COMPLETE
Integrity Impact: COMPLETE
Availability Impact: COMPLETE

Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

10.0

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	oracle	database_server	8.0.5	Yes
Application	oracle	database_server	8.1.5	Yes

References

http://otn.oracle.com/deploy/security/pdf/dbsmp_alert.pdf ([email protected])
http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2001/Dec/0001.html ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/201020 Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3129 Patch, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://otn.oracle.com/deploy/security/pdf/dbsmp_alert.pdf (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2001/Dec/0001.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/201020 Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3129 Patch, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)