Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2023-24040

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-24040 is a vulnerability in the dtprintinfo component of Common Desktop Environment (CDE) 1.6, specifically affecting Solaris 10 systems. It allows low-privileged local users to inject arbitrary printer names via the $HOME/.printers file, leading to control flow manipulation and memory content disclosure. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.1 (HIGH), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, requiring no user interaction, and resulting in high confidentiality and integrity impact. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:opengroup:common_desktop_environment:1.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.1HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.45%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
37.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0045 is in the 77th percentile among its peer group of 17,070 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2023/Jan/24
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
github.com / hnsecurity/vulns/blob/main/HNS-2022-01-dtprintinfo.txt
ExploitThird Party Advisory
security.humanativaspa.it / nothing-new-under-the-sun
ExploitThird Party Advisory