Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-3389

Title: Ingres Auth Bypass

Auth Bypass

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2008-3389.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Aug 05, 2008

Modified Date Apr 09, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.6 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.06%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-3389: Stack-based buffer overflow in the libbecompat library in Ingres 2.6, Ingres 2006 release 1 (aka 9.0.4), and Ingres 2006 release 2 (aka 9.1.0) on Linux and HP-UX allows local users to gain privileges by setting a long value of an environment variable before running (1) verifydb, (2) iimerge, or (3) csreport.

Impacted Vendors

ingres 1

Reference Links

http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=732 http://secunia.com/advisories/31357 http://secunia.com/advisories/31398 http://securitytracker.com/id?1020615 http://www.ingres.com/support/security-alert-080108.php http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495177/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30512 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2292 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2313 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44179 https://support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/phpsupcontent?contentID=181989 http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=732 http://secunia.com/advisories/31357 http://secunia.com/advisories/31398 http://securitytracker.com/id?1020615 http://www.ingres.com/support/security-alert-080108.php http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495177/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30512 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2292 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2313 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44179 https://support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/phpsupcontent?contentID=181989

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.6

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-3389 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

August 05, 2008 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.