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Critical · 10.0 Known exploited Public exploit CVE-2020-14871 EUVD-2020-7007GHSA-7pcp-8fjh-246q

Vulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: Pluggable authentication module). Supported versions that are aff…

Published Oct 21, 2020 · Updated Oct 21, 2025 · Assigned by oracle

Vendor: Oracle Product: Solaris Operating System

Description

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).

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Oracle Solaris Operating System 10, 11 —

Public exploits

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Metasploit 1 module

Exploit-DB 3

GitHub 2 repositories

  • robidev/CVE-2020-14871-Exploit ★ 2 · Dec 25, 2021

    This is a basic ROP based exploit for CVE 2020-14871. CVE 2020-14871 is a vulnerability in Sun Solaris systems libpam library, and exploitable over ssh

  • FromPartsUnknown/EvilSunCheck ★ 0 · Jun 6, 2025

    This is a little Python script to detect the "EvilSun" vulnerability (CVE-2020-14871) on Solaris systems. The vulnerability is a buffer overflow in the Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) `pam_unix…

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