How severe is CVE-2019-3010?

CVE-2019-3010 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 8.8 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 13.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2019-3010: Oracle Solaris Privilege Escalation

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Oracle Solaris Privilege Escalation Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2022-05-25

Remediation due

2022-06-15

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-3010

Description

Vulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: XScreenSaver). The supported version that is affected is 11. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle Solaris executes to compromise Oracle Solaris. While the vulnerability is in Oracle Solaris, attacks may significantly impact additional products. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Oracle Solaris. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 8.8 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H).

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA8.8 HIGH

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

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableno

Technical impacttotal

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
Oracle Corporation	Solaris Operating System	11

References

3 Links

Mailing lists

20191018 CVE-2019-3010 - Local privilege escalation on Solaris 11.x via xscreensaver

Other references

Record Details

Published

2019-10-16

Last updated

2026-01-12

Assigner (CNA)

oracle

Credited to

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