CVE-2019-3010: Oracle Solaris Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Name: Oracle Solaris Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Vendor: Oracle
Product: Solaris
Added to the catalog: 2022-05-25
Due date for US federal agencies: 2022-06-15
Catalog version: 2026.10.30

Oracle Solaris component: XScreenSaver contains an unspecified vulnerability that allows for privilege escalation.

Required action (CISA)

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Ransomware use: CISA does not mark known use of this vulnerability in ransomware campaigns.

Links in CISA's notes

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

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NVD analysis

Status: Analyzed
Published: 2019-10-16T18:15:34.293
Last modified: 2026-06-17T02:35:02.800
Weaknesses: NVD-CWE-noinfo

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).

Metric	Score	Severity	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	8.8	HIGH	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	[email protected] (Primary)
CVSS 3.1	8.8	HIGH	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)
CVSS 2.0	4.6	MEDIUM	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P	[email protected] (Primary)

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154960/Solaris-xscreensaver-Privilege-Escalation.html (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Oct/39 (Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154960/Solaris-xscreensaver-Privilege-Escalation.html (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Oct/39 (Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2019-3010 (US Government Resource)

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CVE record

Assigner: oracle
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2019-10-16T17:40:59.000Z
Updated: 2026-01-12T20:53:25.157Z
Problem types: 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.

References

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html
20191018 CVE-2019-3010 - Local privilege escalation on Solaris 11.x via xscreensaver
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154960/Solaris-xscreensaver-Privilege-Escalation.html

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Cite this page

Dragons Eye Ransomware Tracker, "CVE-2019-3010: Oracle Solaris Privilege Escalation Vulnerability",
entity page, dataset version ref-1c1c68f13a41, updated 2026-11-02T23:39:54.475Z,
https://ransomware-tracker.com/cve/CVE-2019-3010 (accessed 2026-11-03).
Underlying source: CISA Catalog of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities, version 2026.10.30.
Underlying source: National Vulnerability Database (NIST), CVE API 2.0, record last modified 2026-06-17T02:35:02.800.
Underlying source: CVE List (CVE Program, The MITRE Corporation), record updated 2026-01-12T20:53:25.157Z.

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