CVE-1999-0888: Oracle Database Server

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

dbsnmp in Oracle Intelligent Agent allows local users to gain privileges by setting the ORACLE_HOME environmental variable, which dbsnmp uses to find the nmiconf.tcl script.

Affected products

• Oracle Database Server: version 7.3.3 only; version 7.3.4 only
• Oracle ORACLE8I: version 8.0.3 only; version 8.0.4 only; version 8.0.5 only; version 8.0.5.1 only; version 8.1.5 only

Published 1999-08-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.