Vulnerability in Oracle Corporation Solaris Operating System
CVE-2020-14871
Vulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: Pluggable authentication module). Supported versions that are affected are 10 and 11. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network a…
EPSS: 0.889 (99.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 10.0 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H.
Affected products
- Oracle Corporation Solaris Operating System — versions 10, 11
CISA KEV (Known Exploited Vulnerabilities)
This CVE is on the CISA KEV catalog, added on . CISA KEV inclusion means CISA has confirmed in-the-wild exploitation; US federal agencies are required to remediate within a published due date.
BOD 22-01 due date: .
Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
- packetstormsecurity.com/files/159961/SunSSH-Solaris-10-x86-Remote-Root.html
- packetstormsecurity.com/files/160510/Solaris-SunSSH-11.0-x86-libpam-Remote-Root…
- packetstormsecurity.com/files/160609/Oracle-Solaris-SunSSH-PAM-parse_user_name-…
- [oss-security] 20210302 Announce: OpenSSH 8.5 released (mailing-list)
- packetstormsecurity.com/files/163232/Solaris-SunSSH-11.0-Remote-Root.html
- [oss-security] 20240703 Re: CVE-2024-6387: RCE in OpenSSH's server, on glibc-based Linux systems (mailing-list)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2020-14871?
- CVE-2020-14871 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Oracle Corporation Solaris Operating System. CVSS score: 10.0/10. Published 2020-10-21.
- How severe is CVE-2020-14871?
- Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 10.0 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2020-14871 known to be exploited?
- Yes. CVE-2020-14871 is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2021-11-03), indicating it is being actively exploited. 16 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed.