CVE-2020-2656
Vulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: X Window System).
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.56%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
Vulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: X Window System). Supported versions that are affected are 10 and 11. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle Solaris executes to compromise Oracle Solaris. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Oracle Solaris accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle Solaris accessible data. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 4.4 (Confidentiality and Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N).
- CVSS 3.1
- 4.4 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.56% probability · 46th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- oracle/solaris
- Source
- secalert_us@oracle.com
EPSS 0.6% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155990/Solaris-xlock-Information-Disclosure.htmlExploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry, Vendor Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Jan/23Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/01/20/2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/23Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155990/Solaris-xlock-Information-Disclosure.htmlExploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry, Vendor Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Jan/23Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/01/20/2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/23Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.