THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2007-0165
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2007-0165

Solaris vulnerability

CVSS
7.8
EPSS
9.4%
EPSS pct
95th
Exploited
No known
Unspecified vulnerability in libnsl in Sun Solaris 8 and 9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via malformed RPC requests that trigger a crash in rpcbind.
Affected vendor
Sun
Affected product
Solaris
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Published
2007-01-10

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 9.4% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2007-0165

  • Confirm whether Sun Solaris is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2007-0165.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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