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CVE-2018-2892

36
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-2892 is a critical vulnerability within the Solaris component of Oracle Sun Systems Products Suite, specifically affecting versions 10 and 11.3. This easily exploitable local privilege escalation flaw allows a low-privileged attacker with logon access to the Solaris infrastructure to fully compromise the system, leading to complete takeover. With a CVSS 3.0 Base Score of 7.8 (High), it poses significant confidentiality, integrity, and availability risks. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, an exploit (EDB-45126) exists, and it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness of its potential impact.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:oracle:solaris:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
11.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:oracle:solaris:11.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.69%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
74.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-45126 · Aug 2, 2018
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0169 is in the 96th percentile among its peer group of 17,070 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 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

exploit-db.com / exploits/45126
oracle.com / technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2018-4258247.html
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/104799
securitytracker.com / id/1041303