CVE-2025-21551 Missing authorization in Oracle Solaris

Medium 6.0 Published 21 Jan 2025 Updated 13 Mar 2025

High-privileged local attackers can modify critical data or cause denial of service in Oracle Solaris due to incorrect permission assignment.

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-2025-21551?

CVE-2025-21551 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Oracle Solaris, published on 21 Jan 2025. 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: File system). The supported version that is affected is 11. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle Solaris executes to compromise Oracle Solaris. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all Oracle Solaris accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle Solaris. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 6.0 (Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H).

Weakness: CWE-732

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-21551?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Oracle Solaris.

How do I fix CVE-2025-21551?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-21551 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2025-21551 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-21551 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-qhp7-jhxm-mm6f.