Privilege Escalation and Arbitrary File Modification in Oracle Webserver 2.1 and Earlier

CVE-1999-1125 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Oracle Webserver 2.1 and earlier runs setuid root, but the configuration file is owned by the oracle account, which allows any local or remote attacker who obtains access to the oracle account to gain privileges or modify arbitrary files by modifying the configuration file.

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