TI-2020-11706 Aliases CVE-2020-14871 GHSA-7pcp-8fjh-246q

Out-of-bounds write in Oracle Solaris Operating System

CRITICAL 100Exploited in the wildCWE-787Published 2020-10-21 · Updated 2025-10-21

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: None
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: Code execution
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: High · High · High
Fix status: No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-787 and the CVSS impact.

Summary

Vulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: Pluggable authentication module). Supported versions that are affected are 10 and 11. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols 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. Note: This CVE is not exploitable for Solaris 11.1 and later releases, and ZFSSA 8.7 and later releases, thus the CVSS Base Score is 0.0. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 10.0 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H).

Why it matters now

Exploitation Active In CISA KEV since 2021-11-03CISA due date 2022-05-03

EPSS 0.80157 99th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Public exploit Yes 3 exploit referencesTagged by NVD

Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: Active
Automatable: No
Technical impact: Total

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Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
Oracle	Solaris Operating System	10; 11	—	No fix listed	CNA

Solaris Operating System VendorOracle Affected 10; 11 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 2

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:o:oracle:solaris::::::::	10 to before 11.1	Vulnerable	Oracle
cpe:2.3:o:oracle:solaris:9:::::::*	9	Vulnerable	Oracle

cpe:2.3:o:oracle:solaris:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 10 to before 11.1 Vulnerable ·Oracle
cpe:2.3:o:oracle:solaris:9:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 9 Vulnerable ·Oracle

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

2021-11-03 Added to CISA KEV
2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2020-14871
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-7pcp-8fjh-246q

References

Exploit 3

Patch 1

[oss-security] 20240703 Re: CVE-2024-6387: RCE in OpenSSH's server, on glibc-based Linux systems

Advisory 3

TI-2019-02533 Vulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: XScreenSaver). KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
TI-2015-03773 The PDF reader in Mozilla Firefox before 39.0.3, Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.1.1, and… KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
TI-2008-02866 Stack-based buffer overflow in Adobe Acrobat and Reader 8.1.2 and earlier allows remote… KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8
TI-2015-04610 Assertion failure in ISC BIND named via TKEY queries KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
TI-2007-00858 Argument injection vulnerability in the telnet daemon (in.telnetd) in Solaris 10 and 11… CVSS 2.0HIGH 10.0
TI-2016-03148 The (1) HTTP and (2) FTP coders in ImageMagick before 6.9.3-10 and 7.x before 7.0.1-1… KEVCVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5

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Sources

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