CVE-2019-2788 Denial of service in Solaris Operating System
An attacker with local access can cause data modification and system crashes in Solaris Open Fabrics Tools, requiring user interaction.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2019-2788?
CVE-2019-2788 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Oracle Solaris, published on 23 Jul 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
Vulnerability in the Solaris component of Oracle Sun Systems Products Suite (subcomponent: Open Fabrics Tools). The supported version that is affected is 11.4. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Solaris executes to compromise Solaris. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker. 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 3.0 Base Score 6.3 (Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H).
Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-2788?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Oracle Solaris.
How do I fix CVE-2019-2788?
No fix has been published for CVE-2019-2788 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2019-2788 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-2788 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Oracle Solaris
Sources
Also known as GHSA-77q2-958p-ghjp.