Oracle Sun Systems Products Suite 10/11 Solaris access control

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Oracle Sun Systems Products Suite 10/11. The affected element is an unknown function of the component Solaris. Such manipulation leads to access control. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2017-3630. The attack needs to be performed locally. Additionally, an exploit exists.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Oracle Sun Systems Products Suite 10/11. Affected by this issue is an unknown function of the component Solaris. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-264. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

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 unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Solaris accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of Solaris accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Solaris. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 5.3 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L).

The bug was discovered 06/19/2017. The weakness was released 06/22/2017 with Qualys (Website). The advisory is available at oracle.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2017-3630 since 12/06/2016. Local access is required to approach this attack. The successful exploitation requires a simple authentication. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

A public exploit has been developed by Qualys Corporation in ANSI C and been published 6 days after the advisory. The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as highly functional. 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 296012 (Oracle Security Alert CVE-2017-3629 for Solaris 11.3 (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 99153†). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-102745 and VDB-102747. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
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Physical: Partially
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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-2017-3630 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2017-3630
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-102746
SecurityFocus: 99153 - Oracle Solaris CVE-2017-3630 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Created: 06/22/2017 19:11
Updated: 11/30/2025 18:02
Changes: 06/22/2017 19:11 (77), 10/21/2019 16:57 (9), 12/29/2020 12:58 (2), 11/30/2025 18:02 (14)
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