CVE detail
CVE-2008-6065 — CVE-2008-6065
Published 2009-02-05 · Modified 2026-06-16 · Vendor oracle · Product database_server · Source nvd
UNKNOWN
severity
CVSS-derived band
0.0220
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
81.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog
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.
Remediation
No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.
References