A vulnerability was found in Sun Solaris 2.0 (Operating System). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown function of the file /opt/JSparm/bin/perfmon of the component GUI. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

/opt/JSparm/bin/perfmon program in Solaris allows local users to create arbitrary files as root via the Logging File option in the GUI.

The weakness was presented 06/18/2001 as not defined posting (Bugtraq). The advisory is shared at archives.neohapsis.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2001-0403. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

After immediately, there has been an exploit disclosed. The exploit is available at archives.neohapsis.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. We expect the 0-day to have been worth approximately $5k-$25k.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (6267) and Exploit-DB (20715). See VDB-16791 for similar entry. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• Operating System

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• Sun

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• Solaris

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• 2.0

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• commercial

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• end of life (old version)

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