Improper privilege management in Oracle Solaris
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- High
- Impact type
- Privilege escalation
- 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-269.
Summary
Vulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: Filesystems). The supported version that is affected is 11.4. Difficult to exploit 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 (scope change). Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Oracle Solaris. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 7.8 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H).
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Fixed in the same release
Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.
- Advisory ·
Oracle Solaris — oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2026.html
6 records Highest priority Priority LOW 6 LOW
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2026-43846 Improper access control in Oracle SolarisPriority LOW 34
- TI-2026-43490 Improper access control in Oracle SolarisPriority LOW 33
- TI-2026-43489 Improper privilege management in Oracle SolarisPriority LOW 32
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-60661
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-792x-qfwc-q624
References
Advisory 1
More Oracle Solaris vulnerabilities
- TI-2020-11706 Out-of-bounds write in Oracle Solaris Operating System KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
- 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
Sources
- CVE-2026-60661 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-60661 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-792x-qfwc-q624 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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