CVE-2020-14871
Oracle Solaris and Zettabyte File System (ZFS) Unspecified Vulnerability
Does this matter?
Known to be exploited in the wild (CISA KEV, CISA remediation deadline 3 May 2022). Treat as an emergency change: patch or isolate now, then hunt for prior compromise.
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).
- CVSS 3.1
- 10.0 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 79.84% probability · 100th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Listed 3 November 2021 · due 3 May 2022
- Weakness
- CWE-787
- Affected
- oracle/solaris
- Source
- secalert_us@oracle.com
CISA notes
Apply updates per vendor instructions. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-14871
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/159961/SunSSH-Solaris-10-x86-Remote-Root.htmlThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160510/Solaris-SunSSH-11.0-x86-libpam-Remote-Root.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160609/Oracle-Solaris-SunSSH-PAM-parse_user_name-Buffer-Overflow.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163232/Solaris-SunSSH-11.0-Remote-Root.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/03/03/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/3Mailing List, Patch
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.htmlVendor Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/159961/SunSSH-Solaris-10-x86-Remote-Root.htmlThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160510/Solaris-SunSSH-11.0-x86-libpam-Remote-Root.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160609/Oracle-Solaris-SunSSH-PAM-parse_user_name-Buffer-Overflow.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163232/Solaris-SunSSH-11.0-Remote-Root.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/03/03/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/3Mailing List, Patch
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.htmlVendor Advisory
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-14871US Government Resource
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.