CVE-2023-21900

medium

Description

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 high privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols 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 update, insert or delete access to some of Oracle Solaris accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Oracle Solaris. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 4.0 (Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L).

References

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2023.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-01-18

Updated: 2023-01-25

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:M/C:N/I:P/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L

Severity: Medium