CVE-2004-2686

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2004-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the vfs_getvfssw function in Solaris 2.6, 7, 8, and 9 allows local users to load arbitrary kernel modules via crafted (1) mount or (2) sysfs system calls. NOTE: this might be the same issue as CVE-2004-1767, but there are insufficient details to be sure.

Affected products

Sun Solaris: 2.6, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
Sunos: 5.7, 5.8, 5.9

References

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2004/Apr/0081.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1008833
http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Full-Disclosure/2004-04/0297.html
http://www.immunitysec.com/downloads/solaris_kernel_vfs.sxw.pdf
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9962
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1381
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2004/Apr/0081.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1008833
http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Full-Disclosure/2004-04/0297.html
http://www.immunitysec.com/downloads/solaris_kernel_vfs.sxw.pdf
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9962
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1381

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