CVE-2018-3263 Privilege escalation in Solaris Operating System

Medium 5.6 Published 17 Oct 2018 Updated 2 Oct 2024

An unauthenticated attacker can compromise Solaris via Sudo, leading to unauthorized data access, modification, and partial denial of service.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Not needed
Attackable: Over the internet
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2018-3263?

CVE-2018-3263 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Oracle Solaris, published on 17 Oct 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Vulnerability in the Solaris component of Oracle Sun Systems Products Suite (subcomponent: Sudo). The supported version that is affected is 11.3. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols 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 5.6 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L).

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-3263?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Oracle Solaris.

How do I fix CVE-2018-3263?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-3263 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2018-3263 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-3263 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-c7hf-q589-mh9r.