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CVE-2005-0248

The Solaris Management Console (SMC) GUI for Solaris 8 and 9, when creating user accounts that are configured for password aging, creates the accounts with a blank password, which allows remote or local attackers to break into those accounts.

Published

2005-05-02T04:00:00.000

Last Modified

2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 7.5 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

6.4

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Operating System	sun	solaris	8.0	Yes
Operating System	sun	solaris	9.0	Yes
Operating System	sun	solaris	9.0	Yes
Operating System	sun	sunos	5.8	Yes

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/13803/ Patch, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://securitytracker.com/id?1012860 ([email protected])
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-57717-1 Patch ([email protected])
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-096.shtml Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12260 Patch ([email protected])
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18868 ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/13803/ Patch, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://securitytracker.com/id?1012860 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-57717-1 Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-096.shtml Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12260 Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18868 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)