Critical 10.0Known exploited (CISA KEV)Published Oct 21, 2020

CVE-2020-14871Vulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: Pluggable authentication module).

Updated under an hour ago (2026-10-19 05:50 UTC)

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CISA lists it as known exploited since Nov 3, 2021; federal agencies had to remediate by May 3, 2022. Treat that date as your deadline.

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Vulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: Pluggable authentication module). Supported versions that are affected are 10 and 11. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise Oracle Solaris. While the vulnerability is in Oracle Solaris, attacks may significantly impact additional products. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Oracle Solaris. Note: This CVE is not exploitable for Solaris 11.1 and later releases, and ZFSSA 8.7 and later releases, thus the CVSS Base Score is 0.0. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 10.0 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H).

CVSS: 10.0 CRITICAL (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-787
Known exploited: Added to CISA KEV Nov 3, 2021; federal remediation due May 3, 2022Apply updates per vendor instructions.
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): 80.16% (percentile 100)
Assigned by: oracle
NVD analysis: Analyzed
Record last updated: Oct 21, 2025
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

Oracle Corporation Solaris Operating System oracle:solaris_operating_system (from the name)	10; 11	CNA record
oracle solaris oracle:solaris	10	CISA ADP
oracle solaris oracle:solaris	from 10 before 11.1; 9	NVD

References

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.htmlvendor-advisory
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/159961/SunSSH-Solaris-10-x86-Remote-Root.htmlthird-party-advisory, vdb-entry
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160510/Solaris-SunSSH-11.0-x86-libpam-Remote-Root.htmlexploit, third-party-advisory, vdb-entry
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160609/Oracle-Solaris-SunSSH-PAM-parse_user_name-Buffer-Overflow.htmlexploit, third-party-advisory, vdb-entry
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/03/03/1mailing-list, third-party-advisory
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163232/Solaris-SunSSH-11.0-Remote-Root.htmlexploit, third-party-advisory, vdb-entry
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/03/3mailing-list, patch
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-14871us-government-resource

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