CVE-2016-5685 is a critical string injection vulnerability affecting Dell iDRAC7 and iDRAC8 devices with firmware versions prior to 2.40.40.40, allowing authenticated users to gain Bash shell access. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (High), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity and requires only low privileges, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While the vulnerability has a high FAUCET Risk Score of 70/100, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 2.30.30.30CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:dell:idrac7_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 2.30.30.30CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:dell:idrac8_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/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, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.