CVE-2008-6065: Oracle Database Server

Medium severity, CVSS 5.1. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Oracle Database Server: version 10.1 only; version 10.2 only; version 11 only

Published 2009-02-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.