Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessObtain low-privileged local logon
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DeliveryStage malicious X Window System content
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ExploitLure separate user to interact
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ExecutionTrigger flaw under specific conditions
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ImpactGain partial read/write and cause partial DoS
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Access control enforcement
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Defense Evasion The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires the attacker to already possess a low-privileged authenticated local logon (PR:L) on the Oracle Solaris 11.4 host - there is no remote vector (AV:L). The attacker must additionally trick a different, legitimate user into interacting with attacker-influenced X Window System content (UI:R: 'human interaction from a person other than the attacker'), and must satisfy non-trivial conditions reflected by high attack complexity (AC:H). These factors - mandatory prior local access, dependence on a second human victim, and the narrow conditions needed to win the race/complexity - sharply limit realistic exploitation to multi-user Solaris environments where an untrusted local account can target another user; single-user or tightly restricted-access deployments face negligible risk. |
| Impact | This is a low-priority, high-CVSS-but-low-real-risk issue, and the signals are internally consistent on that point. The Oracle-assigned CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L) describes a locally-exploitable flaw requiring existing authenticated access (PR:L), high attack complexity (AC:H), and interaction from a separate human victim (UI:R), yielding only partial Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability impact - hence the modest 4.2 base score. There is no CISA KEV listing and no public exploit code identified in the provided intelligence, so exploitation status is 'no public exploit identified at time of analysis.' EPSS is not supplied; its absence is not evidence of risk either way and should not be treated as a signal. SSVC-style reasoning reinforces low urgency: exploitation is not automatable (requires local logon plus a tricked second user), technical impact is partial rather than total, and no active exploitation is reported. The one caveat is that the attack vector is local-only - this is an authenticated insider/foothold-dependent bug, not a remotely reachable one - so it matters mainly on multi-user Solaris hosts where untrusted local accounts coexist with targeted users. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A low-privileged local user with a valid logon on a shared Oracle Solaris 11.4 system crafts malicious input or display content through the X Window System and induces a separate, higher-value user to interact with it (e.g., opening or viewing something on the X display). Because attack complexity is high and user interaction from another person is required, the attacker must win specific timing/configuration conditions; success yields limited read access, limited unauthorized modification, and a partial denial of service. No public proof-of-concept is known. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 21, 2026
Local, low-privileged users on Oracle Solaris 11.4 can abuse the bundled X Window System component to gain limited unauthorized read and write access to data outside their own scope, plus a partial denial-of-service condition, provided they can convince a second, different user to interact with attacker-influenced X content. The attack surface is narrow: the vector is strictly local (AV:L) with high attack complexity (AC:H) and a required human-interaction step performed by a victim other than the attacker, yielding a CVSS 3.1 score of 4.2. No public exploit code was identified at time of analysis and the issue has not been added to CISA KEV, so practical risk is concentrated in multi-user Solaris hosts where untrusted local accounts coexist with interactive graphical sessions; single-user or tightly access-controlled deployments face negligible exposure.
RemediationAI
Apply the Oracle October 2026 Critical Patch Update for Solaris 11.4 as published at https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2026.html - note that the specific patched build or package revision is not confirmed in the available data, so consult the CPU's patch availability table for the exact Solaris 11.4 SRU or IDR before deployment. Where patching must be staged, compensating controls that meaningfully reduce exposure include restricting X11 display access so that only trusted accounts can reach another user's session - for example using Xauthority/MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE authentication and avoiding host-based xhost trusts, at the cost of extra administrative setup for legitimate multi-user graphical workflows; disabling or not installing the X Window System server on servers that do not require a desktop session, which removes the attack surface entirely but breaks GUI administration tools; and segregating untrusted local accounts from users who run interactive graphical sessions on the same host, which limits the second-victim interaction the exploit depends on but may require re-architecting login and role assignments. Restricting the local login population and monitoring for unusual cross-session X traffic are reasonable supplementary measures given the local, high-complexity, user-interaction-dependent nature of the flaw.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The flaw resides in the X Window System server and client tooling shipped with Oracle Solaris 11.4, a long-standing implementation of the X11 protocol that mediates graphical sessions between applications and the display server over local transports. Because X11 historically trusts the connecting client and provides broad primitives (window contents, selections, event injection, property data) to anything that can reach the display, the relevant weakness class is roughly an access-control/validation gap in how the component handles data supplied through a user-mediated interaction path, though no CWE was assigned in the source data. The CVSS vector (AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L) confirms the attacker must already hold a local account, must overcome race or timing-style preconditions for the high complexity, and must rely on another user opening or interacting with crafted content before any integrity, confidentiality, or availability effect - each limited to Low - is realized. Scope is unchanged, meaning the impact is contained within the Solaris host and its X session rather than crossing a security boundary into a more privileged context.
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AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Local-only X Window System flaw needing an existing low-privileged logon (AV:L/PR:L), tricking a second user (UI:R) under narrow conditions (AC:H), with partial C/I/A impact.
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CVSS VectorVendor: oracle
DescriptionCVE.org
Vulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: X Window System). The supported version that is affected is 11.4. Difficult to exploit 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 update, insert or delete access to some of Oracle Solaris accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle Solaris accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Oracle Solaris. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 4.2 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L).
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