CVE-2023-21896

HIGH

Oracle Solaris <11 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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).

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Patch, Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2023.html

Scores

CVSS v3 7.0
EPSS 0.0006
EPSS Percentile 18.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-269
Status published
Products (2)
oracle/solaris 10
oracle/solaris 11
Published Apr 18, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026