MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2017-3631

Solaris vulnerability

CVSS
5.3
EPSS
6.0%
EPSS pct
93th
Exploited
No known
Vulnerability in the Solaris component of Oracle Sun Systems Products Suite (subcomponent: Kernel). The supported version that is affected is 11. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Solaris executes to compromise Solaris. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Solaris accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of Solaris accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Solaris. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 5.3 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L).
Affected vendor
Oracle
Affected product
Solaris
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds
Published
2017-06-22

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable with local access, low attack complexity, requiring low privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to low impact to confidentiality, low impact to integrity, low impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 6.0% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 93% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2017-3631

  • Confirm whether Oracle Solaris is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2017-3631.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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