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CVE-2016-2308

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-2308 describes a critical vulnerability in American Auto-Matrix Aspect-Nexus and Aspect-Matrix Building Automation Front-End Solutions applications prior to version 3.0.0, where passwords are stored in cleartext. This allows remote attackers to easily obtain sensitive information by reading a file. With a CVSS v3 score of 8.6 (HIGH), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low complexity, potentially leading to high confidentiality, low integrity, and low availability impacts. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has received some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:american_auto-matrix:aspect-matrix_building_automation_front-end_solutions_application:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:american_auto-matrix:aspect-nexus_building_automation_front-end_solutions_application:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.6HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
4.7
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.36%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
68.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0136 is in the 49th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

ics-cert.us-cert.gov / advisories/ICSA-16-273-01-0
Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource