CVE-2020-14871

10.0 CRITICAL CISA KEV - Actively Exploited
Published: October 21, 2020 Modified: October 27, 2025
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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).

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0
Vector String
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/159961/SunSSH-Solaris-10-x86-Remote-Root.html
Source: secalert_us@oracle.com
Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160510/Solaris-SunSSH-11.0-x86-libpam-Remote-Root.html
Source: secalert_us@oracle.com
Exploit Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160609/Oracle-Solaris-SunSSH-PAM-parse_user_name-Buffer-Overflow.html
Source: secalert_us@oracle.com
Exploit Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163232/Solaris-SunSSH-11.0-Remote-Root.html
Source: secalert_us@oracle.com
Exploit Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/03/03/1
Source: secalert_us@oracle.com
Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/3
Source: secalert_us@oracle.com
Mailing List Patch
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
Source: secalert_us@oracle.com
Vendor Advisory
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/159961/SunSSH-Solaris-10-x86-Remote-Root.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160510/Solaris-SunSSH-11.0-x86-libpam-Remote-Root.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Exploit Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160609/Oracle-Solaris-SunSSH-PAM-parse_user_name-Buffer-Overflow.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Exploit Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163232/Solaris-SunSSH-11.0-Remote-Root.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Exploit Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/03/03/1
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/3
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List Patch
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-14871
Source: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
US Government Resource

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Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
10.0 / 10.0
EPSS (Exploit Probability)
88.9%
99th percentile
Exploitation Status
Actively Exploited
Remediation due: 2022-05-03

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-787 CWE-787

Affected Vendors

oracle

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