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CVE-2005-2371
Directory traversal vulnerability in Oracle Reports 6.0, 6i, 9i, and 10g allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via (1)…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 22.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 2.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in Oracle Reports 6.0, 6i, 9i, and 10g allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via (1) "..", (2) Windows drive letter (C:), and (3) absolute path sequences in the desname parameter. NOTE: this issue was probably fixed by REP06 in CPU Jan 2006, in which case it overlaps CVE-2006-0289.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 19 years later
· 19 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 22.3% · top 2.3% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
10
- oracle-january2006-update(24321) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 14309 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 18493 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2006-0323 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 20060117 Oracle Reports - Overwrite any application server file via desname (fixed after 889 days) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://www.red-database-security.com/advisory/oracle_reports_overwrite_any_file.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 1014524 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 20050719 Oracle Security Advisory: Overwrite any file via desname in Oracle Reports (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2006-082403.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 18608 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2005-2372 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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