CVE-2005-0248 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

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: 2005-02-08

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:8.0::x86:::::
	cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:9.0::sparc:::::
	cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:9.0::x86:::::
	cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:5.8:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2005-0249	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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00567.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://secunia.com/advisories/13803/
http://securitytracker.com/id?1012860
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-57717-1
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-096.shtml
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12260
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18868

History

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Subscriptions

Sun Solaris Sunos

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2005-02-08T05:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T21:05:25.446Z

Reserved: 2005-02-08T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2005-0248

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2005-05-02T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2005-0248

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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