CVE-2016-7462

22

FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-7462 describes a critical vulnerability in VMware vRealize Operations (vROps) 6.x before version 6.4.0, where an authenticated attacker can write arbitrary content to files or rename them through a crafted relay-request payload. This deserialization flaw carries a high CVSS score of 8.5, indicating a network-based attack with low complexity, requiring only low privileges, and capable of high impact on availability and low impact on integrity. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, suggesting it has not been widely targeted.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		6.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:vmware:vrealize_operations:6.0.0:::::::*
		6.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:vmware:vrealize_operations:6.1.0:::::::*
		6.2.0aCPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:vmware:vrealize_operations:6.2.0a:::::::*
		6.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:vmware:vrealize_operations:6.2.1:::::::*
		6.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:vmware:vrealize_operations:6.3.0:::::::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.5HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:H

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

HIGH

Exploitability Score

3.1

Impact Score

4.7

CvssVersion

3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

2.04%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

79.2%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0204 is in the 78th percentile among its peer group of 17,829 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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.

Media 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

Vendor Patches (5)

beegovendor investigatingvia llm_extracted

lexmarkvendor investigatingvia llm_extracted

libreofficevendor investigatingvia llm_extracted

postgresqlvendor investigatingvia llm_extracted

vmwarevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference

Vendor Advisories (4)

beegollm-beego-40bc083762ecae1cHIGH

[R1] VMWare vRealize Operations Manager Appliance Multiple Vulnerabilities Chained Remote Code Execution

postgresqlllm-postgresql-4e2c600f8dd0f707HIGH

[R1] VMWare vRealize Operations Manager Appliance Multiple Vulnerabilities Chained Remote Code Execution

lexmarkllm-lexmark-a7ebd526f62c9252HIGH

[R1] VMWare vRealize Operations Manager Appliance Multiple Vulnerabilities Chained Remote Code Execution

libreofficellm-libreoffice-f7c74d46a739d78aHIGH

[R1] VMWare vRealize Operations Manager Appliance Multiple Vulnerabilities Chained Remote Code Execution

References

tenable.com / security/research/tra-2016-34

Technical DescriptionThird Party Advisory

securityfocus.com / bid/94351

securitytracker.com / id/1037297

vmware.com / security/advisories/VMSA-2016-0020.html

Vendor Advisory