CVE-2026-46978
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedVulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: Remote Administration Daemon). The supported version that is affected is 11.4. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTPS to compromise Oracle Solaris. While the vulnerability is in Oracle Solaris, attacks may significantly impact additional products (scope change). Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all Oracle Solaris accessible data as well as unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle Solaris accessible data. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 10.0 (Confidentiality and Integrity impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N).
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · high confidenceUnauthenticated remote attacker can exploit the Remote Administration Daemon in Oracle Solaris 11.4 via HTTPS to achieve full compromise of confidentiality and integrity, with scope expansion to affect additional products. The vulnerability requires no privileges or user interaction and has low attack complexity.
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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data= 11.4CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Confirm Oracle Solaris 11.4 is installedRun 'cat /etc/release' or 'uname -a' to identify the installed Oracle Solaris versionAffected if The version shown is Oracle Solaris 11.4
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Determine if RAD service is enabledRun 'svcs -a | grep rad' or 'svcs rad' to check if the Remote Administration Daemon service is enabled/onlineAffected if The rad service shows as 'online' or 'enabled'
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Check if RAD is listening on network portsRun 'netstat -an | grep 3007' or 'sockstat | grep rad' to see if RAD is bound to network interfaces (port 3007 is the default RAD HTTPS port)Affected if Port 3007 (or other RAD ports) shows as LISTEN on 0.0.0.0 or external interface addresses
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Verify RAD HTTPS service is exposedRun 'svcs -l rad' and inspect the 'net_address' or 'port' values, or check '/etc/rad.conf' if it exists, to see what interfaces RAD binds toAffected if RAD is bound to non-loopback addresses (0.0.0.0 or specific IP rather than 127.0.0.1)
If running Oracle Solaris 11.4 with the RAD service online and exposed on network-accessible ports (especially 3007/HTTPS), the system is affected by this unauthenticated remote vulnerability.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataApply Oracle's critical patch update for CVE-2026-46978 to Oracle Solaris 11.4; if unavailable, disable or restrict the Remote Administration Daemon from untrusted networks and implement network segmentation to limit exposure.
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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