CVE-2004-0360 describes an unknown local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting the passwd(1) utility in Solaris 8.0 and 9.0. This flaw carries a high severity CVSS score of 7.2, indicating that a local attacker could achieve complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity. While not listed on the KEV catalog or having active community discussion, an ExploitDB entry (EDB-715) confirms the existence of a "circ()" local privilege escalation exploit.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:8.0:*:x86:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:9.0:*:sparc:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:9.0:*:x86:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:5.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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