CVE-2004-1707: Oracle Application Server

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The (1) dbsnmp and (2) nmo programs in Oracle 8i, Oracle 9i, and Oracle IAS 9.0.2.0.1, on Unix systems, use a default path to find and execute library files while operating at raised privileges, which allows certain Oracle user accounts to gain root privileges via a modified libclntsh.so.9.0.

Affected products

• Oracle Application Server: any version; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.0.2.1s only; version 1.0.2.2 only; version 1.0.2.2.2 only; version 9.0.2 only; …
• Oracle Application Server Portal: version 3.0.9.8.5 only; version 9.0.2.3 only; version 9.0.2.3a only; version 9.0.2.3b only
• Oracle Database Server Lite: version 5.0 only; version 5.0.1 only; version 5.0.2 only
• Oracle ORACLE8I: version enterprise_8.0.5_.0.0 only; version enterprise_8.0.6_.0.0 only; version enterprise_8.0.6_.0.1 only; version enterprise_8.1.5_.0.0 only; version enterprise_8.1.5_.0.2 only; version enterprise_8.1.5_.1.0 only; …
• Oracle ORACLE9I: version client_9.2.0.1 only; version client_9.2.0.2 only; version enterprise_9.0.1 only; version enterprise_9.0.1.4 only; version enterprise_9.0.1.5 only; version enterprise_9.2.0 only; …

Published 2004-07-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.