CVE-2016-3643 — SolarWinds Virtualization Manager Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

provenance: imported · CVE: CVE-2016-3643 · CWE: CWE-264

CVE-2016-3643: SolarWinds Virtualization Manager Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV)


Vendor / project	SolarWinds
Product	Virtualization Manager
Date added	2021-11-03
Due date	2022-05-03
Ransomware campaign use	Unknown

Description

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

Required action (CISA)

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Notes

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3643

Weakness behind it

CISA records this vulnerability as an instance of CWE-264. From there the chain continues into CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques, all inside this corpus.

References

NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3643
KEV catalog: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog

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