CVE-2016-0922 describes a critical vulnerability in EMC ViPR SRM versions prior to 3.7.2, where the system fails to limit password authentication attempts. This flaw allows remote attackers to conduct brute-force guessing attacks, potentially gaining unauthorized access to the system. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), the vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its high severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 3.7.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:emc:vipr_srm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.