CVE-2017-3276 Privilege escalation in Solaris Operating System
A high-privileged attacker can modify critical data or cause a denial of service in Solaris Kernel Zones via the virtualized block driver.
- 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-2017-3276?
CVE-2017-3276 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Oracle Solaris, published on 27 Jan 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 Zones virtualized block driver). The supported version that is affected is 11.3. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Solaris executes to compromise Solaris. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all Solaris accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Solaris. CVSS v3.0 Base Score 5.7 (Integrity and Availability impacts).
Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-3276?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Oracle Solaris.
How do I fix CVE-2017-3276?
No fix has been published for CVE-2017-3276 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2017-3276 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-3276 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Oracle Solaris
Sources
Also known as GHSA-xfrc-3x4c-8gwv.