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ghsa-fww7-75jj-wj62

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-17 03:28

Modified

2025-10-22 00:31

Severity ?

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

SolarWinds Virtualization Manager 6.3.1 and earlier allow local users to gain privileges by leveraging a misconfiguration of sudo, as demonstrated by "sudo cat /etc/passwd."

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  "modified": "2025-10-22T00:31:16Z",
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CVE-2016-3643 (GCVE-0-2016-3643)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2016-06-17 15:00

Modified

2025-10-21 23:55

Severity ?

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

n/a

Summary

SolarWinds Virtualization Manager 6.3.1 and earlier allow local users to gain privileges by leveraging a misconfiguration of sudo, as demonstrated by "sudo cat /etc/passwd."

References

URL

Tags

	https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39967/	exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
	http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Jun/26	mailing-list, x_refsource_FULLDISC
	http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/137487/Solarwinds-Virtualization-Manager-6.3.1-Privilege-Escalation.html	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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