Oracle Solaris 10 CDE Power Management Utility Local Privilege Escalation

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Oracle Solaris 10. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component CDE Power Management Utility. The manipulation leads to Local Privilege Escalation. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2014-6521. No exploit is available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Oracle Solaris 10 (Operating System) and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown code of the component CDE Power Management Utility. 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 Oracle Solaris 10 allows local users to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via vectors related to CDE - Power Management Utility.

The weakness was published 01/20/2015 with Oracle as Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - January 2015 as confirmed advisory (Website). The advisory is shared at oracle.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2014-6521 since 09/17/2014. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 71697 (Solaris 10 (x86) : 126120-02), 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 123506 (Oracle Solaris 10 Multiple Vulnerabilities (Third Party Bulletin - January 2015)).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (100159), Tenable (71697), SecurityFocus (BID 72138†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-48145†). blogs.oracle.com is providing further details. Similar entries are available at VDB-27, VDB-68712, VDB-68703 and VDB-68721. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Local Privilege Escalation
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Nessus ID: 71697
Nessus Name: Solaris 10 (x86) : 126120-02
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Vendor: oracle.com

Advisory: Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - January 2015
Organization: Oracle
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2014-6521 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2014-6521
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-68765

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X-Force: 100159 - Oracle Solaris CDE - Power Management Utility unspecified, High Risk
SecurityFocus: 72138 - Oracle Solaris CVE-2014-6521 Local Security Vulnerability
SecurityTracker: 1031583
Vulnerability Center: 48145 - [cpujan2015-1972971] Oracle Solaris Local Code Execution via CDE - Power Management Utility Subcomponent, High

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Created: 01/21/2015 11:33
Updated: 03/05/2022 11:42
Changes: 01/21/2015 11:33 (75), 06/18/2017 09:17 (5), 03/05/2022 11:35 (3), 03/05/2022 11:42 (1)
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