High severity · published Apr 18, 2023
CVE-2023-21896
Vulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: NSSwitch)
7.0
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Vulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: NSSwitch). Supported versions that are affected are 10 and 11. Difficult to exploit 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 takeover of Oracle Solaris. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 7.0 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
High
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 6% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
SO
Solaris · Oracle
10; 11 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-21896
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-21896
Patch
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2023.html
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