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CVE-2020-14871

Vulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: Pluggable authentication module). Supported versions that are affected...

Basic Information

CVE State
PUBLISHED
Reserved Date
June 19, 2020
Published Date
October 21, 2020
Last Updated
August 04, 2024
Vendor
Oracle Corporation
Product
Solaris Operating System
Description
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 access via multiple protocols to compromise Oracle Solaris. While the vulnerability is in Oracle Solaris, attacks may significantly impact additional products. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Oracle Solaris. Note: This CVE is not exploitable for Solaris 11.1 and later releases, and ZFSSA 8.7 and later releases, thus the CVSS Base Score is 0.0. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 10.0 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H).

CVSS Scores

CVSS v3.1

10.0 - CRITICAL

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC Information

Exploitation
active
Technical Impact
total

Exploit Status

Exploited in the Wild
Yes (added 2021-11-03 00:00:00 UTC) Source
Proof of Concept Available
Yes (added 2021-12-25 21:27:59 UTC) Source

References

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/159961/SunSSH-Solaris-10-x86-Remote-Root.html http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160510/Solaris-SunSSH-11.0-x86-libpam-Remote-Root.html http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160609/Oracle-Solaris-SunSSH-PAM-parse_user_name-Buffer-Overflow.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/03/03/1 http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163232/Solaris-SunSSH-11.0-Remote-Root.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/3

Known Exploited Vulnerability Information

Source Added Date
CISA 2021-11-03 00:00:00 UTC

Scanner Integrations

Scanner URL Date Detected
Metasploit https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/solaris/ssh/pam_username_bof.rb 2025-04-29 11:01:26 UTC

Potential Proof of Concepts

Warning: These PoCs have not been tested and could contain malware. Use at your own risk.

pam_username_bof

Type: metasploit • Created: Unknown

Metasploit module for CVE-2020-14871

robidev/CVE-2020-14871-Exploit

Type: github • Created: 2021-12-25 21:27:59 UTC • Stars: 2

This is a basic ROP based exploit for CVE 2020-14871. CVE 2020-14871 is a vulnerability in Sun Solaris systems libpam library, and exploitable over ssh