10.0 Critical Exploited

CVE-2020-14871 Oracle Solaris and Zettabyte File System (ZFS) Unspecified Vulnerability

Active exploitation observed

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Required action Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Ransomware campaigns Not observed so far

Weakness CWE-787

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).

Affected products and versions

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
Solaris Operating System	11	No fix stated
Solaris Operating System	10	No fix stated
solaris	11	No fix stated

References

www.oracle.com www.oracle.com
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[oss-security] 20210302 Announce: OpenSSH 8.5 released www.openwall.com
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[oss-security] 20240703 Re: CVE-2024-6387: RCE in OpenSSH's server, on glibc-based Linux systems www.openwall.com

Timeline

Published October 21, 2020
Added to the KEV catalogue November 3, 2021
Last modified October 21, 2025

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