CVE-2008-3838

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-08-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the NFS Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) zones implementation in Sun Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris before snv_88 allows local administrators of non-global zones to read and modify NFS traffic for arbitrary non-global zones, possibly leading to file modifications or a denial of service.

Affected products

Sun Opensolaris: through snv_87; snv_01, snv_02, snv_03, snv_04, snv_05, snv_06 (+80)
Sun Solaris: 10

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/31622
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-240866-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30853
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020752
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2441
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44696
http://secunia.com/advisories/31622
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-240866-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30853
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020752
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2441
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44696

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