CVE-2020-14871

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).

From the Tenable Blog

CVE-2020-14871: Critical Buffer Overflow in Oracle Solaris Exploited in the Wild as Zero-Day

Published: 2020-11-05

Researchers disclose critical zero-day vulnerability in Oracle Solaris that was exploited in the wild by an uncategorized threat actor.

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/2024/07/03/3

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

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163232/Solaris-SunSSH-11.0-Remote-Root.html

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160609/Oracle-Solaris-SunSSH-PAM-parse_user_name-Buffer-Overflow.html

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160510/Solaris-SunSSH-11.0-x86-libpam-Remote-Root.html

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3