CVE-2020-2944
Vulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: Common Desktop Environment).
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 Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: Common Desktop Environment). 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. 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. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 8.8 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H).
- CVSS 3.1
- 8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.80% probability · 78th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · first 21 April 2020
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-120
- Affected
- oracle/solaris
- Source
- secalert_us@oracle.com
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.
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157280/Common-Desktop-Environment-1.6-Local-Privilege-Escalation.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Apr/25Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/04/15/3Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157280/Common-Desktop-Environment-1.6-Local-Privilege-Escalation.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Apr/25Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/04/15/3Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.