CVE-2007-6505

Severity: low (CVSS 3.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-12-20 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-16

Description

Solaris 9, with Solaris Auditing enabled and certain patches for sshd installed, can generate audit records with an audit-ID of 0 even when the user logging into ssh is not root, which makes it easier for attackers to avoid detection and can make it more difficult to conduct forensics activities.

Affected products

Sun Solaris: 9

References

http://osvdb.org/44332
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103172-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-201310-1
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39185
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5282
http://osvdb.org/44332
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103172-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-201310-1
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39185
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5282

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