CVE-2019-3010 on CISA KEV

Vulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: XScreenSaver). The supported version that is affected is 11. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle Solaris executes to compromise Orac

01What CISA says about this vulnerability

Vulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: XScreenSaver). The supported version that is affected is 11. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle Solaris executes to compromise Oracle Solaris. While the vulnerability is in Oracle Solaris, attacks may significantly impact additional products…

02Required action — verbatim from CISA

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

03Notes & references

• www.oracle.com — http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html
• seclists.org — http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Oct/39
• packetstormsecurity.com — http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154960/Solaris-xscreensaver-Privilege-Escal…

04SARA's analyst layer — why this matters

This vulnerability is currently on the CISA KEV list, which CISA only adds CVEs to when there is reliable evidence of active exploitation in the wild. For federal civilian agencies, BOD 22-01 requires remediation by the due date above. For everyone else, KEV is the strongest "patch immediately" signal you can get from public threat intel.

05Affected products (summary)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Oracle Corporation	Solaris Operating System	11

06Detection

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