CVE-2023-21896

High

Description

Vulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: NSSwitch). Supported versions that are affected are 10 and 11. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle Solaris executes to compromise Oracle Solaris. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Oracle Solaris. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 7.0 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

SeverityHigh

CVSS7.0

Exploit probability—

Product

Oracle Solaris

PublishedApr 18, 2023

First seenApr 18, 2023

Weakness typeCWE-269Improper privilege management

How to fix

Vendor advisories

oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2023.html

Affected products

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
oracle solaris	10, 11	—

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