CVE-2001-0943

high

Description

dbsnmp in Oracle 8.0.5 and 8.1.5, under certain conditions, trusts the PATH environment variable to find and execute the (1) chown or (2) chgrp commands, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code by modifying the PATH to point to Trojan Horse programs.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3129

http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2001/Dec/0001.html

http://otn.oracle.com/deploy/security/pdf/dbsmp_alert.pdf

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2001-08-31

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00799