Oracle Solaris 11 privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as problematic has been discovered in Oracle Solaris 11. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation results in privileges management. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2012-1691. Attacking locally is a requirement. No exploit is available. Applying a patch is advised to resolve this issue.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Oracle Solaris 11 (Operating System). Affected is an unknown functionality. 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. CVE summarizes:

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Sun Solaris 11 allows local users to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to Kernel/Privileges.

The weakness was published 04/17/2012 by Roberto Suggi Liverani (rgod) with Oracle (Website). The advisory is shared for download at oracle.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2012-1691 since 03/16/2012. The attack needs to be approached locally. The successful exploitation needs a authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 58798 (Oracle Database Multiple Vulnerabilities (April 2012 CPU)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Databases. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 120898 (Solaris 11 Support Repository Update (SRU) 4 Missing).

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at oracle.com. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (58798), SecurityFocus (BID 53137†), OSVDB (81398†), Secunia (SA48809†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1026940†). Similar entries are available at VDB-5110, VDB-5087, VDB-5112 and VDB-5111. VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

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Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Local: Yes
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Nessus ID: 58798
Nessus Name: Oracle Database Multiple Vulnerabilities (April 2012 CPU)
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Patch: oracle.com

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: oracle.com

Advisory: oracle.com
Researcher: Roberto Suggi Liverani (rgod)
Organization: Oracle
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2012-1691 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2012-1691
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-5160
SecurityFocus: 53137 - Oracle Sun Products Suite CVE-2012-1691 Local Solaris Vulnerability
Secunia: 48809 - Oracle Solaris Multiple Vulnerabilities, Less Critical
OSVDB: 81398
SecurityTracker: 1026940 - Solaris Lets Local Users Gain Root Privileges and Remote Users Partially Access or Modify Data
Vulnerability Center: 34924 - [cpuapr2012-366314] Oracle Sun Solaris 11 \x27Kernel/Privileges\x27 Local Unspecified Vulnerability, Medium

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Entryinfo

Created: 04/18/2012 22:00
Updated: 01/05/2025 14:05
Changes: 04/18/2012 22:00 (67), 04/19/2017 10:28 (12), 01/05/2025 14:05 (17)
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