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CVE-2023-21896

Published: Apr 18, 2023Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUNVD-CWE-noinfo
7.0HIGH
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
0.2%
Top 93.5%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available
Self-Check
Not available

Description

Vulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: NSSwitch). Supported versions that are affected are 10 and 11. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle Solaris executes to compromise Oracle Solaris. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Oracle Solaris. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 7.0 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:LAC:HPR:LUI:NS:UC:HI:HA:H
Exploitability
AV:LAttack Vector
Local
AC:HAttack Complexity
High
PR:LPrivileges Required
Low
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:HConfidentiality
High
I:HIntegrity
High
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-noinfoCWE-269

Affected Products

Oracle Corporation
commercial·USaka Oracle Corp., oracle
SolarisOn-premDatabase
Databases / relational
Solaris Operating SystemOn-premOS
Operating Systems / unix-bsd
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Exploitability

Official Patch Available
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Attack Graph

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MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique
Privilege Escalation
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References

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2023.html
oracle.com

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