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CVE-2018-2578

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-2578 is a difficult-to-exploit vulnerability in the Kernel subcomponent of Oracle Solaris 11.3, allowing a highly privileged attacker with infrastructure logon to compromise the system. Successful exploitation requires human interaction from a non-attacker and can lead to a complete takeover of Solaris, potentially impacting additional products. With a CVSS 3.0 Base Score of 7.2 (High), it carries significant confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is currently no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
11.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:oracle:solaris:11.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.2HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
0.6
Impact Score
6.0
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.44%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
36.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0044 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 13 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

oraclepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

oracle.com / technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2018-3236628.html
Patch
securityfocus.com / bid/102611
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1040215
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry