CVE-2023-21928 — Vulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: IPS re

Vulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: IPS repository daemon). The supported version that is affected is 11. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle Solaris executes to com

01What is this vulnerability?

Vulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: IPS repository daemon). The supported version that is affected is 11. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle Solaris executes to compromise Oracle Solaris. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker. Successful…

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Oracle Corporation	Solaris Operating System	11

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-04-18T19:54:22.502Z
• Last modified: 2024-09-16T19:41:15.146Z

09References

• www.oracle.com — https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2023.html