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CVE-2019-3010

86
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-3010 is a critical local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Oracle Solaris 11, specifically within the XScreenSaver component. A low-privileged attacker with logon access can exploit this flaw to gain full control over the Solaris system, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. With a CVSS v3.0 score of 8.8 (High), this vulnerability is easily exploitable with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. It is actively exploited in the wild, with public exploit code available in Metasploit and ExploitDB, and has been linked to malware like BPFDoor.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:oracle:solaris:11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.0
Impact Score
6.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
13.40%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
96.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
Added to KEV · May 25, 2022
Metasploit: Solaris xscreensaver log Privilege Escalation · Oct 16, 2019
ExploitDB: EDB-47529 · Oct 21, 2019
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1340 is in the 99th 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

cisa.gov / known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
US Government Resource
packetstormsecurity.com / files/154960/Solaris-xscreensaver-Privilege-Escalation.html
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2019/Oct/39
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html
PatchVendor Advisory