National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2003-0722
Orirignal release date: 2003-09-22
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

    The default installation of sadmind on Solaris uses weak authentication (AUTH_SYS), which allows local and remote attackers to spoof Solstice AdminSuite clients and gain root privileges via a certain sequence of RPC packets.

Impact

    CVSS Severity: 10 (High)
    Range: local,remote
    Authentication: design
    Impact Type: sec_prot admin="1"

Reference to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Vulnerable Software and Vendor

    Solaris (Sun)

Technical Details

CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2003-0722