CVE-2017-3629
Vulnerability in the Solaris component of Oracle Sun Systems Products Suite (subcomponent: Kernel). Supported versions that are affected…
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 5.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 7.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 3Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Vulnerability in the Solaris component of Oracle Sun Systems Products Suite (subcomponent: Kernel). Supported versions that are affected are 10 and 11. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Solaris executes to compromise Solaris. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Solaris. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 7.8 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and 2 Exploit-DB entries for it. 2 references of the record are tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits5
Metasploit modules1 module
- Solaris RSH Stack Clash Privilege Escalation (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/solaris/local/rsh_stack_clash_priv_escRank gooddisclosed 19 Jun 2017
Exploit-DB2 entries
- Solaris - RSH Stack Clash Privilege Escalation (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 45625local, solarispublished 16 Oct 2018Verified
- Oracle Solaris 11.1/11.3 (RSH) - 'Stack Clash' Local Privilege Escalation (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 42270local, solaris_x86published 28 Jun 2017Verified
References tagged exploit2 references
- 45625 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 42270 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
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By oracle
- 7 months later
· 7 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.1% · top 7.6% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Affected products
Oracle Corporation · Solaris Operating System
- affected 10
- affected 11
References
4
- 45625 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/alert-cve-2017-3629-3757403.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 42270 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 99150 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2017-12746 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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