CVE-2023-21896

Vulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: NSSwitch). Supported versions that are affected are 10 and 11. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle Solaris executes to compromise Oracle Solaris. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Oracle Solaris. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 7.0 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

• CWE-269

• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2023.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2023.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory

Published

Apr 18, 2023

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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