High severity7.0NVD Advisory· Published Apr 18, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2023-21896
CVE-2023-21896
Description
Vulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: NSSwitch). Supported versions that are affected are 10 and 11. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle Solaris executes to compromise Oracle Solaris. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Oracle Solaris. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 7.0 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).
Affected products
4cpe:2.3:o:oracle:solaris:10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
- cpe:2.3:o:oracle:solaris:10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:oracle:solaris:11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)range: 10, 11
- Oracle Corporation/Solaris Operating Systemv5Range: 10
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
1- www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2023.htmlnvdPatchVendor Advisory
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