How severe is CVE-2016-3643?

CVE-2016-3643 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.8 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2016-3643: SolarWinds Virtualization Manager Privilege Escalation

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

SolarWinds Virtualization Manager Privilege Escalation Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2021-11-03

Remediation due

2022-05-03

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

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

Description

SolarWinds Virtualization Manager 6.3.1 and earlier allow local users to gain privileges by leveraging a misconfiguration of sudo, as demonstrated by "sudo cat /etc/passwd."

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA7.8 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableno

Technical impacttotal

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
-	-	n/a

References

3 Links

Exploits & PoCs

39967

Mailing lists

20160615 CVE-2016-3643 - Misconfiguration of sudo in Solarwinds Virtualization Manager

Other references

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/137487/Solarwinds-Virtualization-Manager-6.3.1-Privilege-Escalation.html

Record Details

Published

2016-06-17

Last updated

2025-10-21

Assigner (CNA)

mitre

Credited to

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