What is CVE-2025-53070?

CVE-2025-53070 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Oracle Solaris, classified under Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2025-10-21.

How severe is CVE-2025-53070?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Privilege escalation in Oracle Solaris

CVE-2025-53070

Vulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: Filesystem). 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 require human interaction from a person other than the attacker and while the vulnerability is in Oracle Solaris, attacks may significantly impact additional products (scope change). Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle Solaris. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 5.5 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H).

EPSS: 0.001 (3.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Oracle Solaris — versions 11
Oracle Corporation Solaris — versions 11

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-267 — Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-53070?: CVE-2025-53070 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Oracle Solaris, classified under Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2025-10-21.
How severe is CVE-2025-53070?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.