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CVE-2018-16097

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-16097 describes an arbitrary file write vulnerability affecting Lenovo XClarity Integrator (LXCI) for VMware versions prior to 5.5 and LXCI for Microsoft System Center versions prior to 3.5. An authenticated attacker can exploit insufficient sanitization during certificate uploads to write to any system file. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) has a low attack complexity and can lead to high integrity impact, but no confidentiality or availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 3.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:lenovo:xclarity_integrator:*:*:*:*:*:scvmm:*:*
< 5.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:lenovo:xclarity_integrator:*:*:*:*:*:vcenter:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.45%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
37.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0045 is in the 47th percentile among its peer group of 21,977 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

support.lenovo.com / us/en/solutions/LEN-23800
PatchVendor Advisory