Sun Solaris 5.11 Administration Local Privilege Escalation

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Sun Solaris 5.11. It has been classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Administration. The manipulation leads to Local Privilege Escalation. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2011-0800. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Sun Solaris 5.11 (Operating System). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown code block of the component Administration. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a local privilege escalation vulnerability. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Unspecified vulnerability in the Solaris component in Oracle Solaris 8, 9, 10, and 11 Express allows local users to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to Administration Utilities.

The weakness was disclosed 04/19/2011 with Oracle (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at oracle.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2011-0800. The exploitation is known to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. Additional levels of successful authentication are required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 52731 (Solaris 9 (sparc) : 116014-07), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Solaris Local Security Checks. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 119165 (Solaris Administration Utilities Vulnerability).

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 Tenable (52731), SecurityFocus (BID 47450†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-31104†). The entries VDB-57212, VDB-57211, VDB-57210 and VDB-57209 are pretty similar. Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Local Privilege Escalation
CWE: Unknown
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Nessus ID: 52731
Nessus Name: Solaris 9 (sparc) : 116014-07
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Timelineinfo

02/04/2011 🔍
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04/19/2011 +29 days 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: oracle.com

Advisory: oracle.com
Organization: Oracle
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2011-0800 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2011-0800
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-57167

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SecurityFocus: 47450 - Oracle Sun Solaris CVE-2011-0800 Local Vulnerability
Vulnerability Center: 31104 - [cpuapr2011-301950] Oracle Solaris 8, 9, 10 and 11 Express Administration Utilities Local Unspecified Vulnerability, Medium

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/23/2015 16:50
Updated: 01/18/2025 18:22
Changes: 03/23/2015 16:50 (55), 03/21/2017 11:14 (10), 11/03/2021 01:32 (4), 11/03/2021 01:39 (1), 01/18/2025 18:22 (17)
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