CVE-2020-2696 Privilege escalation in Solaris Operating System

What is CVE-2020-2696?

CVE-2020-2696 is a high-severity vulnerability in Oracle Solaris, published on 15 Jan 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Vulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: Common Desktop Environment). The supported version that is affected is 10. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle Solaris executes to compromise Oracle Solaris. While the vulnerability is in Oracle Solaris, attacks may significantly impact additional products. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Oracle Solaris. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 8.8 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H).

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-2696?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Oracle Solaris.

How do I fix CVE-2020-2696?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-2696 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2020-2696 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-2696 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Oracle Solaris

• CVE-2020-14871 Oracle Solaris and Zettabyte File System (ZFS) Unspecified Exploited Critical 10.0
• CVE-2019-3010 Oracle Solaris Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2026-46978 Missing authorization in Oracle Solaris Critical 10.0
• CVE-2017-3623 Other in Solaris Operating System Critical 10.0
• CVE-2014-0397 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0

All Oracle Solaris vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-7cv3-8r9m-fwcq.