CVE-2008-3996

Database 10g vulnerability

CVSS

5.5

EPSS

9.5%

EPSS pct

95th

Exploited

No known

Unspecified vulnerability in the Change Data Capture component in Oracle Database 10.1.0.5, 10.2.0.4, and 11.1.0.6 allows remote authenticated users to affect confidentiality and integrity, related to SYS.DBMS_CDC_IPUBLISH.

Affected vendor

Oracle

Affected product

Database 10g

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

Published

2008-10-14

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring single-factor authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 9.5% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

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