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CVE-2019-3010: Oracle Solaris Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: yes — in CISA KEV since 2022-05-25
• EPSS: 13.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-10-16 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Vulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: XScreenSaver). The supported version that is affected is 11. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle Solaris executes 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. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 8.8 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H).

Affected products

• Oracle Corporation Solaris Operating System: 11

References

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154960/Solaris-xscreensaver-Privilege-Escalation.html
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Oct/39
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154960/Solaris-xscreensaver-Privilege-Escalation.html
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Oct/39
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html
• https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2019-3010

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