Oracle Solaris 11 Power Management Utility Local Privilege Escalation

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Oracle Solaris 11. The affected element is an unknown function of the component Power Management Utility. This manipulation causes Local Privilege Escalation. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2014-6510. No exploit exists. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Oracle Solaris 11 (Operating System). It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing of the component Power Management Utility. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a local privilege escalation vulnerability. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Solaris 11 allows local users to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to Power Management Utility.

The weakness was disclosed 01/20/2015 with Oracle as Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - January 2015 as confirmed advisory (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at oracle.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2014-6510 since 09/17/2014. The exploitation appears to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 80935 (Oracle Solaris Critical Patch Update : jan2015_SRU10_5a), 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 120906 (Solaris 11 Support Repository Update (SRU) 10.5/10.5a Missing).

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 (100161), Tenable (80935), SecurityFocus (BID 72131†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-48172†). Additional details are provided at blogs.oracle.com. The entries VDB-27, VDB-68712, VDB-68703 and VDB-68721 are pretty similar. Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Local Privilege Escalation
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
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Nessus ID: 80935
Nessus Name: Oracle Solaris Critical Patch Update : jan2015_SRU10_5a
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: oracle.com

Advisory: Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - January 2015
Organization: Oracle
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2014-6510 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2014-6510
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-68767
X-Force: 100161 - Oracle Solaris Power Management Utility unspecified, High Risk
SecurityFocus: 72131 - Oracle Solaris CVE-2014-6518 Local Security Vulnerability
SecurityTracker: 1031583
Vulnerability Center: 48172 - [cpujan2015-1972971] Oracle Solaris Local Code Execution via the Solaris Cluster Component, High

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Created: 01/21/2015 11:33
Updated: 03/05/2022 12:04
Changes: 01/21/2015 11:33 (74), 06/18/2017 09:20 (5), 03/05/2022 11:56 (3), 03/05/2022 12:04 (1)
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Cache ID: 216:E35:103

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