Oracle Solaris 11.4 Plugins privileges management

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A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in Oracle Solaris 11.4. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Plugins. Performing a manipulation results in privileges management. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2026-91242. The attack is only possible with local access. There is not any exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Oracle Solaris 11.4. This affects some unknown functionality of the component Plugins. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Vulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: Plugins). The supported version that is affected is 11.4. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle Solaris executes to compromise Oracle Solaris. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker and while the vulnerability is in Oracle Solaris, attacks may significantly impact additional products (scope change). Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all Oracle Solaris accessible data as well as unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle Solaris accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 7.4 (Confidentiality and Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N).

It is possible to read the advisory at oracle.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-91242 since 09/15/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. The exploitation needs additional levels of successful authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Operating System

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• Oracle

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• Solaris

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• 11.4

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.oracle.com

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