Security restrictions bypass in Sun ZFS Storage Appliance Kit - CVE-2018-2857

 

Security restrictions bypass in Sun ZFS Storage Appliance Kit - CVE-2018-2857

Published: April 18, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU11915
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-2857
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Oracle
Affected software:
Sun ZFS Storage Appliance Kit

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote authenticated attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information, write arbitrary files and cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists in the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance Kit (AK) HTTP data path subsystems component due to improper security restrictions. A remote attacker can partially access data, partially modify data and partially cause the service to crash.

How to mitigate CVE-2018-2857

Update to version 8.7.17.

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