CVE-2020-14871

critical

Description

Vulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: Pluggable authentication module). Supported versions that are affected are 10 and 11. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise Oracle Solaris. While the vulnerability is in Oracle Solaris, attacks may significantly impact additional products. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Oracle Solaris. Note: This CVE is not exploitable for Solaris 11.1 and later releases, and ZFSSA 8.7 and later releases, thus the CVSS Base Score is 0.0. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 10.0 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H).

References

https://www.tenable.com/blog/cve-2020-14871-critical-buffer-overflow-in-oracle-solaris-exploited-in-the-wild-as-zero-day

https://www.tenable.com/blog/oracle-critical-patch-update-for-october-2020-addresses-402-security-updates

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/03/03/1

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/159961/SunSSH-Solaris-10-x86-Remote-Root.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-10-21

Updated: 2022-06-03

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical