CVE-2009-0981Unspecified vulnerability in the Application Express component in Oracle Database 11.1.0.7 allows remote authenticated users to affect…
- 4.0MediumCVSS base score
- 5.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 7.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in the Application Express component in Oracle Database 11.1.0.7 allows remote authenticated users to affect confidentiality, related to APEX. NOTE: the previous information was obtained from the April 2009 CPU. Oracle has not commented on reliable researcher claims that this issue allows remote authenticated users to obtain APEX password hashes from the WWV_FLOW_USERS table via a SELECT statement.
Public exploit
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Show the exploits2
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Oracle APEX 3.2 - Unprivileged DB users can see APEX Password hashes (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 8456local, multiplepublished 16 Apr 2009Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 8456 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Timeline
ID reserved
By oracle
- 27 days later
· 27 days later
Published
- 15 years later
· 15 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 | Medium4.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.3% · top 7.3% of all CVEs (15 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References9
- 34461 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 34693 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- TA09-105A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- 20090416 Unprivileged DB users can see APEX password hashes (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://www.red-database-security.com/advisory/apex_password_hashes.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2009-099563.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 53738 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 1022052 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 8456 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_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-2009-0978 (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-2009-0981)Record last updated .