Vulnerability in Sun Solaris
CVE-2003-0722
The default installation of sadmind on Solaris uses weak authentication (AUTH_SYS), which allows local and remote attackers to spoof Solstice AdminSuite clients and gain root privileges via a certain sequence of RPC packets.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 10.0 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.888 (99.8th percentile), scored .
High probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — patch promptly. 100th percentile — 99.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.888 · newest: 0.888 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/41870 (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/8615 (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/9742 (third-party-advisory)
- www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/n-148.shtml (government-resource, third-party-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1273 (signature, vdb-entry)
- archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2003-q3/0115.html (mailing-list)
- www.idefense.com/advisory/09.16.03.txt
- sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do (vendor-advisory)
- marc.info/ (mailing-list)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2003-0722?
- CVE-2003-0722 is a vulnerability in Sun Solaris. Published 2003-09-22.
- Is CVE-2003-0722 known to be exploited?
- 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.