CVE-2009-1979
Unspecified vulnerability in the Network Authentication component in Oracle Database 10.1.0.5 and 10.2.0.4 allows remote attackers to…
- 10.0HighCVSS base score
- 76.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.5% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 3Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in the Network Authentication component in Oracle Database 10.1.0.5 and 10.2.0.4 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors. NOTE: the previous information was obtained from the October 2009 CPU. Oracle has not commented on claims from an independent researcher that this is related to improper validation of the AUTH_SESSKEY parameter length that leads to arbitrary code execution.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and 2 Exploit-DB entries for it.
Show the exploits3
Metasploit modules1 module
- Oracle 10gR2 TNS Listener AUTH_SESSKEY Buffer Overflow (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/oracle/tns_auth_sesskeyRank greatdisclosed 20 Oct 2009
Exploit-DB2 entries
- Oracle 10gR2 - TNS Listener AUTH_SESSKEY Buffer Overflow (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 16342remote, windowspublished 24 Nov 2010Verified
- Oracle Database 10.1.0.5 < 10.2.0.4 - AUTH_SESSKEY Length Validation Remote Buffer Overflow (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 9905remote, windowspublished 30 Oct 2009Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By oracle
- 5 months later
· 5 months 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 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 76.4% · top 0.5% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
8
- http://blogs.conus.info/node/28 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20091030 CVE-2009-1979 (Oracle RDBMS) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 37027 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 1023057 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- TA09-294A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2009-096303.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 36747 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 59110 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_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-2009-1974 (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-2009-1979)Record last updated .