CVE-2025-53070 Denial of service in Oracle Solaris
A high-privileged attacker can cause a complete denial of service in Oracle Solaris by exploiting a filesystem vulnerability requiring user interaction.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-53070?
CVE-2025-53070 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Oracle Solaris, published on 21 Oct 2025. 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 Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: Filesystem). 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 require human interaction from a person other than the attacker and while the vulnerability is in Oracle Solaris, attacks may significantly impact additional products (scope change). Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle Solaris. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 5.5 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H).
Weakness: CWE-267
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-53070?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Oracle Solaris.
How do I fix CVE-2025-53070?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-53070 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-2025-53070 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-53070 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Oracle Solaris
Sources
Also known as GHSA-892f-j8ph-m6xc.