CVE-2018-3264 Privilege escalation in Solaris Operating System

Medium 4.4 Published 17 Oct 2018 Updated 2 Oct 2024

A low-privileged attacker with local access can modify data and cause partial denial of service in the Solaris kernel.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Any signed-in user
Attackable: Local or same network only
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2018-3264?

CVE-2018-3264 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Oracle Solaris, published on 17 Oct 2018. 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). The supported version that is affected is 11.3. 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 and unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Solaris. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 4.4 (Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L).

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-3264?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Oracle Solaris.

How do I fix CVE-2018-3264?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-3264 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2018-3264 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-3264 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-8j4x-m92q-c7wx.