CVE-2016-1990 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting multiple versions of HPE ArcSight ESM and ArcSight ESM Express. A local attacker can exploit this flaw to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges. With a CVSS v3 score of 7.8 (High), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and does not require user interaction, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no public exploit code available, nor is there evidence of active exploitation, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 5.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microfocus:arcsight_enterprise_security_manager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microfocus:arcsight_enterprise_security_manager:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microfocus:arcsight_enterprise_security_manager:6.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microfocus:arcsight_enterprise_security_manager:6.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.9CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microfocus:arcsight_enterprise_security_manager:6.9:*:*:*:express:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
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 records are not available for this CVE.