CVE-2016-3998 describes a critical man-in-the-middle vulnerability affecting NetApp AltaVault versions 4.1 and earlier, specifically impacting the SMB protocol. With a CVSS score of 8.1 (High), this vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to achieve high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts, including sensitive information disclosure, privilege escalation, or denial of service, with high attack complexity. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 4.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:netapp:altavault:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.