CVE-2009-1979
HIGH severity · CVSS 10
10CVSS HIGH
Summary
Unspecified vulnerability in the Network Authentication component in Oracle Database 10.1.0.5 and 10.2.0.4 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors. NOTE: the previous information was obtained from the October 2009 CPU. Oracle has not commented on claims from an independent researcher that this is related to improper validation of the AUTH_SESSKEY parameter length that leads to arbitrary code execution.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)76%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://blogs.conus.info/node/28
- http://osvdb.org/59110
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37027
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2009-096303.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507598/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36747
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023057
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-294A.html