CVE-2020-2656

MEDIUM
4.4
CVSS Score
Published: January 15, 2020 at 04:34 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 03:12 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorSolaris

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Severity
MEDIUM4.4
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.6%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

Vulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: X Window System). Supported versions that are affected are 10 and 11. Easily exploitable 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 unauthorized update, insert or delete access to some of Oracle Solaris accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle Solaris accessible data. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 4.4 (Confidentiality and Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N).

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

References (5)

x_refsource_MISCExploitPatchThird Party AdvisoryVDB EntryVendor Advisory
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155990/Solaris-xlock-Information-Disclosure.html
Mailing Listx_refsource_FULLDISCExploitPatchThird Party Advisory
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Jan/23
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTThird Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/01/20/2
Mailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQExploitThird Party Advisory
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/23

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
LOW
Integrity
LOW
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-noinfo

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