CVE-2011-0412
low
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
2.1
Description
Oracle Solaris 8, 9, and 10 stores back-out patch files (undo.Z) unencrypted with world-readable permissions under /var/sadm/pkg/, which allows local users to obtain password hashes and conduct brute force password guessing attacks.
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.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- http://osvdb.org/71646
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44047
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/648244
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2011-301950.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47171
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0882
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66579
- http://osvdb.org/71646
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44047
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/648244
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2011-301950.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47171
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0882
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66579
CWEs
CWE-255
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.