CVE-2017-10004 Privilege escalation in Solaris Operating System
A high-privileged local attacker can exploit a Solaris kernel vulnerability to achieve full system takeover.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2017-10004?
CVE-2017-10004 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Oracle Solaris, published on 8 Aug 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Vulnerability in the Solaris component of Oracle Sun Systems Products Suite (subcomponent: Kernel). Supported versions that are affected are 10 and 11. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Solaris executes to compromise Solaris. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Solaris. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 6.7 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).
Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-10004?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Oracle Solaris.
How do I fix CVE-2017-10004?
No fix has been published for CVE-2017-10004 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2017-10004 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-10004 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Oracle Solaris
Sources
Also known as GHSA-f4m4-vgf6-42vm.