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CVE-2016-3643

75
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-3643 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting SolarWinds Virtualization Manager 6.3.1 and earlier versions, stemming from a misconfigured sudo entry. This high-severity flaw (CVSS 7.8) allows a local attacker to gain full control over the system with low attack complexity and no user interaction required, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The vulnerability is actively exploited in the wild, with public exploit code available on ExploitDB, and has garnered significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 6.3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:solarwinds:virtualization_manager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.70%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
Added to KEV · Nov 3, 2021
ExploitDB: EDB-39967 · Jun 16, 2016
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0370 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 16,985 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

cisa.gov / known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
US Government Resource
packetstormsecurity.com / files/137487/Solarwinds-Virtualization-Manager-6.3.1-Privilege-Escalation.html
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2016/Jun/26
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
exploit-db.com / exploits/39967
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry