CVE-2008-6065

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-02-05 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

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.

Affected products

Oracle Database: 10.1, 10.2, 11

References

http://www.oracleforensics.com/wordpress/index.php/2008/10/10/create-any-directory-to-sysdba/
http://www.oracleforensics.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/create-any-directory-to-sysdba.pdf
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497286/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31738
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48814
http://www.oracleforensics.com/wordpress/index.php/2008/10/10/create-any-directory-to-sysdba/
http://www.oracleforensics.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/create-any-directory-to-sysdba.pdf
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497286/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31738
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48814

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