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CVE-2009-1978

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-1978 describes an unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Secure Backup 10.2.0.3, potentially allowing remote attackers to compromise confidentiality, integrity, and availability. With a CVSS score of 9.0, this critical vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network by authenticated users, leading to complete compromise of the system. While Oracle's official description is vague, independent researchers claim it enables remote code execution with SYSTEM privileges, with public exploit code available in Metasploit and ExploitDB. Despite its high severity and exploit availability, there is no evidence of active exploitation, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
10.2.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:secure_backup:10.2.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

9.0HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
8.0
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
64.69%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: Oracle Secure Backup Authentication Bypass/Command Injection Vulnerability · Aug 18, 2009
ExploitDB: EDB-9652 · Sep 14, 2009
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.6469 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 17,823 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

osvdb.org / 55904
secunia.com / advisories/35776
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/51762
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2009-091332.html
securityfocus.com / bid/35678
securitytracker.com / id
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/1900
zerodayinitiative.com / advisories/ZDI-09-059