What is CVE-2025-21551?

CVE-2025-21551 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Oracle Solaris, classified under Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource. CVSS score: 6.0/10. Published 2025-01-21.

How severe is CVE-2025-21551?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.0 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Oracle Solaris

CVE-2025-21551

Vulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: File system). The supported version that is affected is 11. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle Solaris executes to compromise Oracle Solaris. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all Oracle Solaris accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle Solaris. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 6.0 (Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H).

EPSS: 0.002 (8.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.0 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Oracle Solaris — versions 11
Oracle Corporation Solaris — versions 11

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-732 — Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

References

secalert_us@oracle.com (vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-21551?: CVE-2025-21551 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Oracle Solaris, classified under Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource. CVSS score: 6.0/10. Published 2025-01-21.
How severe is CVE-2025-21551?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.0 out of 10.