CVE-2005-0701 — Directory traversal vulnerability in Oracle Database Server 8i and 9i allows remote attackers to read or rename arbitrary files via "\\.\\.." (modified dot dot backslash) sequences to UTL_FILE functions such as (1) UTL_FILE.FOPEN or (2) UTL_FILE.frename

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Directory traversal vulnerability in Oracle Database Server 8i and 9i allows remote attackers to read or rename arbitrary files via "\\.\\.." (modified dot dot backslash) sequences to UTL_FILE functions such as (1) UTL_FILE.FOPEN or (2) UTL_FILE.frename

Published Mar 9, 2005

5.0

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 18.14%

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in Oracle Database Server 8i and 9i allows remote attackers to read or rename arbitrary files via "\\.\\.." (modified dot dot backslash) sequences to UTL_FILE functions such as (1) UTL_FILE.FOPEN or (2) UTL_FILE.frename.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

18.14% 0.18145

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.18145

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 (13 key points)

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

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	18.14% (0.18145)	97.12th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	18.14% (0.18145)	96.83th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 30, 2025	28.78% (0.28780)	96.15th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 29, 2025	35.35% (0.35354)	95.45th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 23, 2025	28.78% (0.28780)	95.98th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 19, 2025	38.12% (0.38122)	96.76th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 17, 2025	43.51% (0.43508)	97.21th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 17, 2024	82.22% (0.82219)	98.62th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Dec 12, 2024	95.55% (0.95551)	99.48th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	95.36% (0.95356)	98.89th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	6.17% (0.06174)	90.68th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	6.17% (0.06174)	89.81th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	6.17% (0.06174)	77.66th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (3)

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-March/032273.html
mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCExploitPatchVendor Advisory
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111023635928211&w=2
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.argeniss.com/research/ARGENISS-ADV-030501.txt
x_refsource_MISCExploitPatchVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-March/032273.html		mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCExploitPatchVendor Advisory
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111023635928211&w=2		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.argeniss.com/research/ARGENISS-ADV-030501.txt		x_refsource_MISCExploitPatchVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Mar 9, 2005

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Mar 9, 2005

Link CVE-2005-0701

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2005-0701

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2005-0701