CVE-2020-14871

Summary

CVECVE-2020-14871
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-10-21 15:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-06-03 18:47:00 UTC
DescriptionVulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: Pluggable authentication module). Supported versions that are affected are 10 and 11. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise Oracle Solaris. While the vulnerability is in Oracle Solaris, attacks may significantly impact additional products. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Oracle Solaris. Note: This CVE is not exploitable for Solaris 11.1 and later releases, and ZFSSA 8.7 and later releases, thus the CVSS Base Score is 0.0. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 10.0 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H).

Risk And Classification

EPSS: 0.888720000 probability, percentile 0.995160000 (date 2026-04-01)

CISA KEV: Listed on 2021-11-03; due 2022-05-03; ransomware use Unknown

Problem Types: CWE-787

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability

VendorOracle
ProductSolaris and Zettabyte File System (ZFS)
NameOracle Solaris and Zettabyte File System (ZFS) Unspecified Vulnerability
Required ActionApply updates per vendor instructions.
Noteshttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-14871

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Oracle Solaris All All All All
Operating System Oracle Solaris 9 All All All
Operating System Oracle Solaris All All All All
Operating System Oracle Solaris 10 All All All
Operating System Oracle Solaris 11 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Solaris SunSSH 11.0 x86 libpam Remote Root ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - October 2020 MISC www.oracle.com Vendor Advisory
Oracle Solaris SunSSH PAM parse_user_name() Buffer Overflow ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
oss-security - Announce: OpenSSH 8.5 released MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Solaris SunSSH 11.0 Remote Root ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com
SunSSH Solaris 10 x86 Remote Root ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog CISA www.cisa.gov kev

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 296067 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 33.94.0 Missing (CPUAPR2021)
  • 296072 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 25.75.3 Missing (CPUJUL2020)
  • 591406 Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU GNU/Linux subsystem Multiple Vulnerabilities (SSB-439005, ICSA-22-104-13)
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