CVE-2018-3266 Privilege escalation in Solaris Operating System
A high-privileged attacker can compromise Solaris Verified Boot to modify data, read information, and cause partial denial of service.
- 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-2018-3266?
CVE-2018-3266 is a low-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: Verified Boot). 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 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 3.9 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L).
Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-3266?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Oracle Solaris.
How do I fix CVE-2018-3266?
No fix has been published for CVE-2018-3266 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2018-3266 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-3266 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Oracle Solaris
Sources
Also known as GHSA-x3xx-vhfc-j659.