HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2006-0260

Database Server vulnerability

CVSS
10.0
EPSS
4.7%
EPSS pct
91th
Exploited
No known
Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Oracle Database server 9.2.0.7 and 10.1.0.5 have unspecified impact and attack vectors, as identified by Oracle Vuln# (1) DB05 in the (a) Data Pump component; (2) DB15 in the (b) Oracle Text component; (3) DB22 in the (c) Streams Apply component; (4) DB23 and (5) DB24 in the (d) Streams Capture component; and (6) DB26 in the (e) Streams Subcomponent. NOTE: details are unavailable from Oracle, but they have not publicly disputed a claim by a reliable independent researcher that states that DB05 involves SQL injection in the (f) LONG2VARCHAR, LONG2VCMAX, LONG2VCNT, and LONG2CLOB functions in the DBMS_METADATA_UTIL package; (g) MAKE_FILTER, FETCH_VIEWS_ERROR, FETCH_FILTERS, FETCH_VIEWS, SET_FILTER_COMMON, DO_FILTER_SCRIPT, SET_TABLE_FILTERS, and MAKE_FILTER_TEXT functions in the DBMS_METADATA_INT package; and (h) GET_PREPOST_TABLE_ACT function in the DBMS_METADATA package.
Affected vendor
Oracle
Affected product
Database Server
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Published
2006-01-18

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.7% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

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  • Confirm whether Oracle Database Server is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2006-0260.
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