CVE-2026-21942 (GCVE-0-2026-21942)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-20 21:56 – Updated: 2026-01-21 14:59
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Summary
Vulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: Filesystems). 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 require human interaction from a person other than the attacker. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle Solaris. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 5.0 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).
Severity
5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle Solaris executes to compromise Oracle Solaris. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle Solaris.
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Oracle Corporation Oracle Solaris Affected: 10 (semver)
Affected: 11 (semver)
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