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CVE-2018-2892

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

EXPLOITHIGH 7.8EPSS 1.77%

Does this matter?

A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB and the impact is high, while EPSS rates exploitation at 1.8%. 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: Availability Suite Service). Supported versions that are affected are 10 and 11.3. 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
1.77% probability · 78th percentile
Public exploits
1 in Exploit-DB · first 2 August 2018
CISA KEV
Not listed
Affected
oracle/solaris
Source
secalert_us@oracle.com
EPSS trend
0%3%5%27 October 2026: 1.77%27 October 202627 October 2026

EPSS 1.8% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. 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.

EDB-IDTitleTypePublishedVerified
EDB-45126source ↗Sun Solaris 11.3 AVS Kernel - Local Privilege Escalationsolaris · mu-blocal2 August 2018no

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