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CVE-2020-14871

Published: Oct 21, 2020Updated: Oct 27, 2025 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUCWE-787
NVD MITRE
10.0CVSSCRITICAL
EPSS Score
80.3%
Top 0.4%
CISA KEV
Active Exploitation
Since Nov 3, 2021
Exploits
5 Known
Remediation
Patch Available

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).

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:NUI:NS:CC:HI:HA:H
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:CScope
Changed
Impact
C:HConfidentiality
High
I:HIntegrity
High
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-787

Affected Products

solarisoracle
OS
Operating Systems / unix-bsd
Solaris Operating SystemOracle Corporation
On-premOS
Operating Systems / unix-bsd
solarisSun
On-premOS
Operating Systems / unix-bsd
Sun ZFS Storage Appliance KitOracle Corp.
On-prem
Databases / cache-message-queue
oraclecommercialUSDatabasesaka oracle corp.
oracle corporationcommercialUSDatabasesaka oracle
suncommercialUSOperating Systems
oracle corp.commercialUSDatabasesaka oracle

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Exploitability

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability
Added to KEV:Nov 3, 2021
Remediation due:May 3, 2022

Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.

5 exploit sources identified

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MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques
Initial Access
Privilege Escalation
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References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/159961/SunSSH-Solaris-10-x86-Remote-Root.html
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http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160510/Solaris-SunSSH-11.0-x86-libpam-Remote-Root.html
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http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160609/Oracle-Solaris-SunSSH-PAM-parse_user_name-Buffer-Overflow.html
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Timeline

Published
Oct 21, 2020
Added to CISA KEV
Nov 3, 2021
Last Updated
Oct 27, 2025

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