Oracle Sun Systems Products Suite 10/11 Solaris access control

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Oracle Sun Systems Products Suite 10/11. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Solaris. This manipulation causes access control. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2017-3629. The attack needs to be launched locally. Furthermore, an exploit is available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Oracle Sun Systems Products Suite 10/11. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing of the component Solaris. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-264. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Vulnerability in the Solaris component of Oracle Sun Systems Products Suite (subcomponent: Kernel). Supported versions that are affected are 10 and 11. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Solaris executes to compromise Solaris. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Solaris. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 7.8 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

The bug was discovered 06/19/2017. The weakness was published 06/22/2017 with Qualys (Website). The advisory is shared at oracle.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2017-3629 since 12/06/2016. An attack has to be approached locally. Required for exploitation is a single authentication. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

A public exploit has been developed by Qualys Corporation in ANSI C and been published 6 days after the advisory. It is possible to download the exploit at exploit-db.com. It is declared as highly functional. We expect the 0-day to have been worth approximately $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 100997 (Solaris 11 : Multiple Kernel Vulnerabilities), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Solaris Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 296011 (Oracle Solaris 10 Kernel/ glibc Elevation of Privileges (Oracle Security Alert for CVE-2017-3629)(Stack Clash)).

A possible mitigation has been published before and not just after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Exploit-DB (42270), Tenable (100997) and SecurityFocus (BID 99150†). Similar entries are available at VDB-102746 and VDB-102747. Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
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Access: Public
Status: Highly functional
Author: Qualys Corporation
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Nessus ID: 100997
Nessus Name: Solaris 11 : Multiple Kernel Vulnerabilities
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MetaSploit ID: rsh_stack_clash_priv_esc.rb
MetaSploit Name: Solaris RSH Stack Clash Privilege Escalation
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Vendor: oracle.com

Advisory: oracle.com
Researcher: Qualys Research Lab
Organization: Qualys
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2017-3629 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2017-3629
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-102745
SecurityFocus: 99150 - Oracle Solaris CVE-2017-3629 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 06/22/2017 19:10
Updated: 12/02/2025 15:51
Changes: 06/22/2017 19:10 (77), 10/21/2019 16:54 (9), 12/29/2020 12:52 (2), 12/02/2025 15:51 (14)
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