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CVE-2017-3629

Vulnerability in the Solaris component of Oracle Sun Systems Products Suite (subcomponent: Kernel).

EXPLOIT ×2 ✓HIGH 7.8EPSS 5.08%

Does this matter?

2 public exploits are published in Exploit-DB (verified) and the impact is high, while EPSS rates exploitation at 5.1%. 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: Kernel). Supported versions that are affected are 10 and 11. 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. 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
5.08% probability · 92th percentile
Public exploits
2 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 28 June 2017
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-119
Affected
oracle/solaris
Source
secalert_us@oracle.com
EPSS trend
0%5%10%27 October 2026: 5.08%27 October 202627 October 2026

EPSS 5.1% 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 (2)

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.

EDB-IDTitleTypePublishedVerified
EDB-45625source ↗Solaris - RSH Stack Clash Privilege Escalation (Metasploit)solaris · Metasploitlocal16 October 2018yes
EDB-42270source ↗Oracle Solaris 11.1/11.3 (RSH) - 'Stack Clash' Local Privilege Escalationsolaris_x86 · Qualys Corporationlocal28 June 2017yes

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.