Oracle Solaris version 10 1/13, when using the Common Desktop Environment (CDE), is vulnerable to a privilege escalation vulnerability.

published 2022-10-31 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-46729

cvss: 7.8; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.3%; EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 27%
public exploits: 0; none known

Oracle Solaris version 10 1/13, when using the Common Desktop Environment (CDE), is vulnerable to a privilege escalation vulnerability. A low privileged user can escalate to root by crafting a malicious printer and double clicking on the the crafted printer's icon.

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: Proof of concept is public
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total
Assessed: 18 mo ago (2025-05-06)

Exploit prediction

0.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 27% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

phrack.org http://phrack.org/issues/70/13.html#article referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
github.com https://github.com/0xdea/exploits/blob/master/solaris/raptor_dtprintcheckdir_intel.c referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CISA ADP	3.1	7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	3.1	7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA	3.1	7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

Weakness

CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input

References

phrack.org /issues/70/13.html#article
exploit, issue-tracking, technical-description, third-party-advisory
github.com /0xdea/exploits/blob/master/solaris/raptor_dtprintcheckdir_intel.c
exploit, third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2022-43752
NVD CVE-2022-43752

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Summary