CVE-2019-3010 vulnerability in Oracle Products
Published on October 16, 2019
Vulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: XScreenSaver). The supported version that is affected is 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).
Known Exploited Vulnerability
This Oracle Solaris Privilege Escalation Vulnerability is part of CISA's list of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities. Oracle Solaris component: XScreenSaver contains an unspecified vulnerability which allows for privilege escalation.
The following remediation steps are recommended / required by June 15, 2022: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2019-3010 is exploitable with local system access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. This vulnerability is known to be actively exploited by threat actors. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.
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Affected Versions
Oracle Corporation Solaris Operating System Version 11 is affected by CVE-2019-3010Exploit Probability
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