CVE-2007-3723
LOW · CVSS 2.1EPSS 0.3%EU EUVD
The process scheduler in the Sun Solaris kernel does not make use of the process statistics kept by the kernel and performs scheduling based upon CPU billing gathered from periodic process sampling ticks, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption), as described in "Secretly Monopolizing the CPU Without Superuser Privileges."
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 2.1 (v2.0)
- Severity
- LOW
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- EPSS score
- 0.3% (18th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-3707)
- Published
- July 12, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-3707 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- sun / solaris
References
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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