CVE-2022-21494

low-risk

Published 2022-04-19

Vulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: Kernel). The supported version that is affected is 11. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle Solaris executes to compromise Oracle Solaris. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle Solaris. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 4.0 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

Do I need to act?

0.10% chance of exploitation

EPSS score — low exploit probability

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 4.0/10 Medium

LOCAL / HIGH complexity

Affected Products (1)

Solaris

Affected Vendors

Oracle

References (2)

Vendor Advisory https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html

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low-risk

Severity 10/34 · Low

Exploitability 0/34 · Minimal

Exposure 5/34 · Minimal