CVE-2016-0230 describes a vulnerability in multiple versions of the IBM Power Hardware Management Console (HMC), allowing physically proximate attackers to gain root access. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.8 (Medium), indicating that an attacker with physical access can achieve high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact with low attack complexity. There is no known public exploit code available (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and the vulnerability has received minimal community discussion or media coverage, suggesting it is not actively exploited or widely known.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
7.9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:hardware_management_console:7.9.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:hardware_management_console:7.9.0:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:hardware_management_console:7.9.0:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:hardware_management_console:7.9.0:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibm:hardware_management_console:8.1.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
No social media mentions found for this CVE.
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.2 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.