CVE-2010-0916

medium

Published 2010-07-13 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.2

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle OpenSolaris 10 allows local users to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to rdist.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-34309 dos solaris verified text · 1 KB

Monarch Rich · 2010-07-13

Oracle Solaris - 'rdist' Privilege Escalation

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41612/info

Oracle Solaris is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability.

Local attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with superuser privileges. Successfully exploiting this issue will result in the complete compromise of affected computers.

The following products are affected:

Solaris 10
OpenSolaris 

/usr/bin/rdist -cDwh file_that_is_hardlink rlogin_host:LONG_STRING

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.