CVE-2008-5689

highpriority · track · 39EPSS 0.013 · 69 %ileexploit · PoCEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

1 exploit · PoC

Likely / severe?

1.25% (69th) EPSS

CVSS 7.2 · high

Is it mine?

81 products

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Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-23

tun in IP Tunnel in Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris snv_01 through snv_76 allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted SIOCGTUNPARAM IOCTL request, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.2

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.5–7.2

v2.07.2highAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 10

v2.06.5mediumAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:POCsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-399USprimary

exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-15962Linux Kernel (Solaris 10 / < 5.10 138888-01) - Local Privilege EscalationPoC · exploit_db

affected products (81)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
sun opensolaris= snv_01nvdUScpe:2.3:o:sun:opensolaris:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun opensolaris= snv_02nvdUScpe:2.3:o:sun:opensolaris:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun opensolaris= snv_03nvdUScpe:2.3:o:sun:opensolaris:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun opensolaris= snv_04nvdUScpe:2.3:o:sun:opensolaris:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun opensolaris= snv_05nvdUScpe:2.3:o:sun:opensolaris:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun opensolaris= snv_06nvdUScpe:2.3:o:sun:opensolaris:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun opensolaris= snv_07nvdUScpe:2.3:o:sun:opensolaris:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun opensolaris= snv_08nvdUScpe:2.3:o:sun:opensolaris:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun opensolaris= snv_09nvdUScpe:2.3:o:sun:opensolaris:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun opensolaris= snv_10nvdUScpe:2.3:o:sun:opensolaris:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun opensolaris= snv_100nvdUScpe:2.3:o:sun:opensolaris:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun opensolaris= snv_101nvdUScpe:2.3:o:sun:opensolaris:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun opensolaris= snv_102nvdUScpe:2.3:o:sun:opensolaris:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun opensolaris= snv_11nvdUScpe:2.3:o:sun:opensolaris:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun opensolaris= snv_12nvdUScpe:2.3:o:sun:opensolaris:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun opensolaris= snv_13nvdUScpe:2.3:o:sun:opensolaris:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun opensolaris= snv_14nvdUScpe:2.3:o:sun:opensolaris:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun opensolaris= snv_15nvdUScpe:2.3:o:sun:opensolaris:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
sun opensolaris= snv_16nvdUScpe:2.3:o:sun:opensolaris:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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also known as (2)

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sources

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enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2008-12-19modified 2026-06-16

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references (22)

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