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CVE-2005-2378
Directory traversal vulnerability in Oracle Reports allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via an absolute or relative path to…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 9.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 4.7% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in Oracle Reports allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via an absolute or relative path to the (1) CUSTOMIZE or (2) desformat parameters to rwservlet. NOTE: vector 2 is probably the same as CVE-2006-0289, and fixed in Jan 2006 CPU.
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:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 9.1% · top 4.7% 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
11
- 1014527 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- oracle-january2006-update(24321) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20060117 Oracle Reports - Read parts of files via desname (fixed after 874 days) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 1014525 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 20050719 Oracle Security Advisory: Read parts of any XML-file via customize parameter in Oracle Reports (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://www.red-database-security.com/advisory/oracle_reports_read_any_file.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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
- 20050719 Oracle Security Advisory: Read parts of any file via desformat in Oracle Reports (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 18608 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.red-database-security.com/advisory/oracle_reports_read_any_xml_file.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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-2005-2379 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2005-2378)Record last updated .