CVE-2017-3622
Vulnerability in the Solaris component of Oracle Sun Systems Products Suite (subcomponent: Common Desktop Environment (CDE)).
Does this matter?
A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB (verified) and the impact is high, while EPSS rates exploitation at 5.3%. Anyone can run this; patch or mitigate before the next change window and check exposed instances for signs of use.
Description
Vulnerability in the Solaris component of Oracle Sun Systems Products Suite (subcomponent: Common Desktop Environment (CDE)). The supported version that is affected is 10. Easily "exploitable" vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Solaris executes to compromise Solaris. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Solaris. Note: CVE-2017-3622 is assigned for the "Extremeparr". CVSS 3.0 Base Score 7.8 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).
- CVSS 3.0
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 5.34% probability · 93th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 25 September 2018
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- oracle/solaris
- Source
- secalert_us@oracle.com
EPSS 5.3% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
Public exploits (1)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
References
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2017-3236618.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97774Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038292
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45479/
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2017-3236618.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97774Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038292
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45479/
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.