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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 6.3.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:solarwinds:virtualization_manager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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