CVE-2001-0943 — dbsnmp in Oracle 8.0.5 and 8.1.5, under certain conditions, trusts the PATH environment variable to find and execute the (1) chown or (2) chgrp commands, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code by modifying the PATH to point to Trojan Horse programs

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dbsnmp in Oracle 8.0.5 and 8.1.5, under certain conditions, trusts the PATH environment variable to find and execute the (1) chown or (2) chgrp commands, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code by modifying the PATH to point to Trojan Horse programs

Published Feb 2, 2002

7.2

HIGH

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.97%

Description

dbsnmp in Oracle 8.0.5 and 8.1.5, under certain conditions, trusts the PATH environment variable to find and execute the (1) chown or (2) chgrp commands, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code by modifying the PATH to point to Trojan Horse programs.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.97% 0.01967

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 2, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01967

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (10 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 2, 2026	1.97% (0.01967)	79.67th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.97% (0.01967)	77.71th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.80% (0.00805)	72.47th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.06% (0.00062)	28.33th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 11, 2024	0.06% (0.00062)	26.31th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.06% (0.00062)	24.29th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.59% (0.01592)	75.48th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Mar 4, 2023	1.59% (0.01592)	75.48th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.59% (0.01592)	73.48th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.59% (0.01592)	52.35th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (4)

http://otn.oracle.com/deploy/security/pdf/dbsmp_alert.pdf
x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2001/Dec/0001.html
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/201020
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQExploitPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3129
vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDPatchVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://otn.oracle.com/deploy/security/pdf/dbsmp_alert.pdf		x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2001/Dec/0001.html		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/201020		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQExploitPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3129		vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDPatchVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Feb 2, 2002

Updated Aug 8, 2024

Reserved Jan 31, 2002

Link CVE-2001-0943

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2001-0943

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2001-0943