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CVE-2016-1990

23
FAUCET Score

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.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(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 Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.0/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
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.40%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
32.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0040 is in the 72nd percentile among its peer group of 16,994 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

h20566.www2.hpe.com / portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay
PatchVendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id/1035282
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry