CVE-1999-1256

Medium CVSS 4.6

Published 1999-03-04 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-1999-1256, which normally means it is not a Windows CVE. For non-Microsoft software the fix is the vendor's own updated release, and the affected versions are listed below.

What it is

Oracle Database Assistant 1.0 in Oracle 8.0.3 Enterprise Edition stores the database master password in plaintext in the spoolmain.log file when a new database is created, which allows local users to obtain the password from that file.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-1999-1256

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