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Oracle Solaris EUVDEUVD-2026-106450

| CVE-2026-87411 MEDIUM
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400)
2026-10-20 secalert_us@oracle.com GHSA-mjp8-7qc2-qj4q
5.5
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: oracle
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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Obtain low-privileged local logon
  2. Exploit
    Invoke crafted filesystem operation
  3. Execution
    Trigger fault in Filesystems component
  4. Impact
    Hang or repeatable crash (complete DOS)

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A06:2025 - Insecure Design
ASVS 5.0
V2 - Validation and Business Logic Resource consumption limits
MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique across 1 tactic: Impact

The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up.

Exploitation Conditions

Requires an authenticated low-privileged local logon to the Solaris 11.4 host where the vulnerable Filesystems component executes (PR:L, AV:L); there is no remote vector and no user-interaction requirement (UI:N). Exploitation is limited to the single supported affected version, Oracle Solaris 11.4, and impact is confined to availability (system hang or complete DoS) with no data exposure or modification. The key limiting factor is the prerequisite of existing local account access, which constrains this to insider, post-compromise, or shared-host scenarios rather than external attackers.

Impact

This is a moderate-risk, availability-only issue best treated as routine patch-cycle priority rather than an emergency. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H, base 5.5) is internally consistent with the description: a low-privileged local user with a valid logon can reliably trigger a hang or repeatable crash (complete DoS) in the Filesystems component, with no confidentiality or integrity impact. The local attack vector (AV:L) is the single biggest risk limiter - an attacker must already have authenticated shell access to the host, so this is not remotely reachable and cannot be used for initial access. No EPSS score, KEV listing, or public POC is present in the provided data, so there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and no evidence of active exploitation. No signals conflict here; rather, key enrichment data (EPSS, CWE) is simply absent, which is expected for a freshly disclosed Oracle Critical Patch Update item. Net: a real but contained local DoS requiring prior authenticated access, not a high-urgency internet-facing threat.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An attacker who already holds a low-privileged local account on a Solaris 11.4 host (e.g., a shell user on a shared or multi-tenant system) issues crafted filesystem operations that drive the Filesystems component into a hang or repeatable kernel crash, taking the entire system offline. No user interaction or elevated privileges are needed, but local logon is mandatory. No public exploit code is identified at time of analysis.

This Month Plan within 30 days. Why: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9).
No patch listed yet 0.1% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Oct 21, 2026

A local availability flaw in the Filesystems component of Oracle Solaris 11.4 lets a low-privileged user who already holds a logon on the host hang or repeatedly crash the operating system, producing a complete denial of service. The CVSS 3.1 score is 5.5 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H), so there is no remote vector, no user interaction, and no confidentiality or integrity impact - the only meaningful precondition is existing local account access, which confines practical exposure to insider, shared-host, and post-compromise scenarios. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and no evidence of active exploitation, so this is a routine patch-cycle item rather than an emergency: moderate risk, availability only, gated behind local credentials.

RemediationAI

Apply the Oracle Critical Patch Update fixes for Oracle Solaris 11.4 from the October 2026 CPU (https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2026.html), which is the vendor-released remediation path; the exact SRU/kernel patch revision is not stated in the available data, so confirm the target revision in the CPU patch matrix before scheduling. Because exploitation requires an existing low-privileged local account, the highest-value compensating controls are access-side and can be applied immediately while patching is pending: restrict interactive logon on Solaris 11.4 hosts to accountable users and service accounts (trade-off: added administrative overhead and possible friction for shared jump hosts), enforce least privilege and RBAC profiles so ordinary users cannot invoke privileged filesystem administration utilities such as mount, mkfs, and zfs administration subcommands (trade-off: some operational workflows must be re-delegated through sudo/RBAC roles), and segment untrusted workloads into non-global zones so a crash in a zone's filesystem activity has a bounded blast radius (trade-off: zone isolation does not protect the global zone kernel, and a global-zone panic still takes down all zones). Add availability monitoring and crash-dump alerting for panics and hung-system conditions so repeatable crash attempts by an insider are detected quickly, and review local account inventories for stale or unnecessary logins. There is no vendor-documented workaround that removes the vulnerable code path, so patching remains the only complete fix.

Affected VersionsENISA

Oracle Solaris 11.4

Affected Packages

euvd oracle_solaris no fix

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 1 package in euvd

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Technical ContextAI · show details

The vulnerability lives in the Filesystems component of the Solaris kernel/userland stack - the layer that owns mount handling, the vnode/filesystem interface, and the on-disk and in-memory structures traversed by system calls such as mount(2), statvfs, and filesystem-specific ioctls. Oracle did not publish a CWE for this issue, so the root-cause class must be inferred from the assessed impact: an unprivileged local user can drive the filesystem subsystem into an unrecoverable state, which is characteristic of improper resource or state handling (e.g. an unvalidated or racy path in mount/teardown logic, a lock-ordering or reference-count defect, or an unhandled error condition) that escalates into a kernel panic or an uninterruptible hang rather than memory corruption - consistent with the C:N/I:N vector where only availability is lost. Because the attack surface is a local system-call interface behind a normal user logon, exploitation requires code execution on the host, and the prerequisite of local account access is the dominant limiting control; privilege separation via zones, RBAC, or restricted logon greatly narrows who can reach the vulnerable paths.

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Severity by source

Vendor (oracle) PRIMARY 5.5 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
vuln.today AI 5.5 MEDIUM

Local authenticated user (AV:L/PR:L) reliably triggers a complete DoS with no complexity barrier (AC:L) and no confidentiality or integrity impact (C:N/I:N/A:H).

3.1 AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
4.0 AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Primary rating from Vendor (oracle).

CVSS VectorVendor: oracle

Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

DescriptionCVE.org

Vulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: Filesystems). The supported version that is affected is 11.4. 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 ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of Oracle Solaris. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 5.5 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.1%
Top 97% exploitable
Prevalence
Low
Legacy enterprise Unix, niche and declining production footprint
Data Quality
4 sources
Confidence: Medium

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity MEDIUM
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.1%
Patch available No
Active threat No
Deciding rule
MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision· derived
Defer
Exploitation· derived
None
System Exposure· derived
Small
Automatable· derived
No
Human Impact· derived
Medium

Priority Score

28
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +28
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

Denial of Service attacks render applications or systems unavailable by overwhelming resources or triggering failure conditions.

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