CVE-2010-1183 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Oracle Solaris, specifically within certain patch-installation scripts related to Update Manager. An attacker could exploit this by creating a symbolic link to an arbitrary file, causing the script to append data to it via the /tmp/CLEANUP temporary file. With a CVSS score of 3.3 (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N), this vulnerability requires local access and medium attack complexity, potentially leading to partial confidentiality and integrity impacts. While not listed on CISA's KEV catalog, multiple exploits are publicly available on ExploitDB, indicating known methods for exploitation. Despite this, there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this decade-old vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
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