HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2007-6413

Solaris vulnerability

CVSS
9.3
EPSS
3.3%
EPSS pct
87th
Exploited
No known
Sun Solaris 10 with the 120011-04 and 120012-04 patches, and later 120011-* and 120012-* patches, allows remote attackers to bypass certain netgroup restrictions and obtain root access to a filesystem via NFS requests from a client root user.
Affected vendor
Sun
Affected product
Solaris
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-264 — Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
Published
2007-12-17

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 3.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 87% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2007-6413

  • Confirm whether Sun Solaris is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2007-6413.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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