CVE-2007-3717: Sun Sunos

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

rcp on Sun Solaris 8, 9, and 10 before 20070710 does not properly call certain helper applications, which allows local users to gain privileges by creating files with certain names, possibly containing shell metacharacters or spaces, a similar issue to CVE-2006-0225.

Affected products

• Sun Sunos: version 5.8 only; version 5.9 only; version 5.10 only

Published 2007-07-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.