Sun Solaris 8.0/9.0 Solaris Management Console Remote Code Execution

CVSS Meta Temp Score CVSS is a standardized scoring system to determine possibilities of attacks. The Temp Score considers temporal factors like disclosure, exploit and countermeasures. The unique Meta Score calculates the average score of different sources to provide a normalized scoring system.	Current Exploit Price (≈) Our analysts are monitoring exploit markets and are in contact with vulnerability brokers. The range indicates the observed or calculated exploit price to be seen on exploit markets. A good indicator to understand the monetary effort required for and the popularity of an attack.	CTI Interest Score Our Cyber Threat Intelligence team is monitoring different web sites, mailing lists, exploit markets and social media networks. The CTI Interest Score identifies the interest of attackers and the security community for this specific vulnerability in real-time. A high score indicates an elevated risk to be targeted for this vulnerability.
7.3	$0-$5k	0.00

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Sun Solaris 8.0/9.0. This affects an unknown function of the component Solaris Management Console. Such manipulation leads to Remote Code Execution. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2005-0248. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Sun Solaris 8.0/9.0 (Operating System). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Solaris Management Console. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a remote code execution vulnerability. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The Solaris Management Console (SMC) GUI for Solaris 8 and 9, when creating user accounts that are configured for password aging, creates the accounts with a blank password, which allows remote or local attackers to break into those accounts.

The bug was discovered 01/10/2005. The weakness was disclosed 05/02/2005 (Website). The advisory is available at xforce.iss.net. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2005-0248 since 02/08/2005. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 112 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (18868), SecurityFocus (BID 12260†), OSVDB (12916†), Secunia (SA13803†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1012860†). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

Productinfo

Type

Operating System

Vendor

Name

Solaris

Version

License

commercial

Support

end of life (old version)

Website

Vendor: https://www.oracle.com/sun/

CPE 2.3info

CPE 2.2info

CVSSv4info

VulDB Vector: 🔍
VulDB Reliability: 🔍

CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.3

VulDB Base Score: 7.3
VulDB Temp Score: 7.3
VulDB Vector: 🔍
VulDB Reliability: 🔍

CVSSv2info

AV	AC	Au	C	I	A
💳	💳	💳	💳	💳	💳
💳	💳	💳	💳	💳	💳
💳	💳	💳	💳	💳	💳

Vector	Complexity	Authentication	Confidentiality	Integrity	Availability
Unlock	Unlock	Unlock	Unlock	Unlock	Unlock
Unlock	Unlock	Unlock	Unlock	Unlock	Unlock
Unlock	Unlock	Unlock	Unlock	Unlock	Unlock

VulDB Base Score: 🔍
VulDB Temp Score: 🔍
VulDB Reliability: 🔍

NVD Base Score: 🔍

Exploitinginfo

Class: Remote Code Execution
CWE: Unknown
CAPEC: 🔍
ATT&CK: 🔍

Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

Availability: 🔍
Status: Not defined

EPSS Score: 🔍
EPSS Percentile: 🔍

Price Prediction: 🔍
Current Price Estimation: 🔍

0-Day	Unlock	Unlock	Unlock	Unlock
Today	Unlock	Unlock	Unlock	Unlock

Threat Intelligenceinfo

Interest: 🔍
Active Actors: 🔍
Active APT Groups: 🔍

Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
Status: 🔍

0-Day Time: 🔍

Timelineinfo

01/10/2005 🔍
01/10/2005 +0 days 🔍
01/12/2005 +2 days 🔍
01/13/2005 +1 days 🔍
02/08/2005 +26 days 🔍
05/02/2005 +83 days 🔍
05/02/2005 +0 days 🔍
02/16/2009 +1386 days 🔍
03/10/2015 +2213 days 🔍
08/27/2019 +1631 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: oracle.com

Advisory: xforce.iss.net
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2005-0248 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2005-0248
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-24362
X-Force: 18868
SecurityFocus: 12260 - Sun Solaris Management Console User Interface Insecure Account Creation Vulnerability
Secunia: 13803
OSVDB: 12916 - Sun - Solaris - Management Console User Interface Insecure Account Creation Issue
SecurityTracker: 1012860
Vulnerability Center: 20877 - Sun Solaris 8 and 9 SMC Remote and Local User Accounts Access Vulnerability, High

Entryinfo

Created: 03/10/2015 23:05
Updated: 08/27/2019 09:55
Changes: 03/10/2015 23:05 (57), 08/27/2019 09:55 (9)
Complete: 🔍
Cache ID: 216::103

If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.