Risk Letters

Exploited vulnerability

CVE-2016-3643

TLP:CLEAR

SolarWinds Virtualization Manager Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

SolarWinds Virtualization Manager allows for privilege escalation through leveraging a misconfiguration of sudo.

Facts

  • Vendor: SolarWinds
  • Product: Virtualization Manager
  • CVSS: 7.8
  • EPSS (probability of exploitation within 30 days): 3.7 %
  • On CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list since: 3 November 2021
  • First known exploitation: 3 November 2021
  • CISA's deadline for US federal agencies: 3 May 2022
  • Weakness: CWE-264
  • First seen by Risk Letters: 3 November 2021

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Data: NVD (public domain), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, MITRE ATT&CK, AlienVault OTX. NVD