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CVE-2003-0722 (GCVE-0-2003-0722)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2003-09-17 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 02:05
VLAI
Summary
The default installation of sadmind on Solaris uses weak authentication (AUTH_SYS), which allows local and remote attackers to spoof Solstice AdminSuite clients and gain root privileges via a certain sequence of RPC packets.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8615 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
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http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/n-148.shtml third-party-advisorygovernment-resourcex_refsource_CIAC
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http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106391959014331&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Date Public
2003-09-16 00:00
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  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.


Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.