CVE-1999-0711 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The oratclsh interpreter in Oracle 8.x Intelligent Agent for Unix allows local users to execute Tcl commands as root.

Published: 2000-04-18

Score: 4.6 Medium

EPSS: 1.2% Low

KEV: No

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:oracle:oracle8i:8.0.3:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:oracle:oracle8i:8.0.4:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:oracle:oracle8i:8.0.5:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:oracle:oracle8i:8.0.5.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:oracle:oracle8i:8.1.5:::::::*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-1999-0692	The oratclsh interpreter in Oracle 8.x Intelligent Agent for Unix allows local users to execute Tcl commands as root.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01203.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=92609807906778&w=2
http://marc.info/?t=92550157100002&w=2&r=1

History

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Subscriptions

Oracle Oracle8i

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2000-04-18T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-01T16:48:37.597Z

Reserved: 1999-11-25T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-1999-0711

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 1999-04-29T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-06-16T21:48:53.820

Link: CVE-1999-0711

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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