CVE-2004-2306 describes a vulnerability in Sun Solaris versions 7 through 9 where the removal of the SUNWscpu package, often done for security hardening, disables mail alerts from the audit_warn script when Basic Security Module (BSM) is enabled. This oversight could allow attackers to operate undetected by preventing critical audit notifications. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.6, indicating a low severity with local access, low attack complexity, and potential for partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there known public exploits in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, though it has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:7.0:*:x86:*:*:*:*:* | ||
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:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:5.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.