CVE-2016-3643

published 2016-06-17

CVE-2016-3643: 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…

Priority P1 80 high 7.8 CVSS 3.1

AV L AC L PR L UI N S U C H I H A H

KEV ITW EXPLOIT

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."

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
solarwinds	virtualization_manager	<= 6.3.1	—

Detection & IOCs extracted from sources · hover to see the quote

command sudo cat /etc/passwd↗

• → Monitor for low-privileged users invoking 'sudo' to execute commands such as 'cat /etc/passwd' or 'cat /etc/shadow' on SolarWinds Virtualization Manager appliances, which indicates abuse of the misconfigured sudo policy. ↗
• → Audit sudoers configuration on SolarWinds Virtualization Manager appliances for overly permissive rules that allow any local user to execute arbitrary commands as superuser. ↗
• → This attack requires an OS-level shell on the appliance; correlate with any interactive shell sessions or SSH logins by non-administrative accounts on the Virtualization Manager appliance. ↗

• · Exploitation is local only — an attacker must already have an OS shell on the SolarWinds Virtualization Manager appliance before leveraging the sudo misconfiguration. ↗
• · Affected versions are SolarWinds Virtualization Manager 6.3.1 and earlier; versions after the hotfix/manufacturing release are not vulnerable. ↗

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 7.8 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 7.2 HIGH AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

vulncheck 7.8 HIGH

cisa 7.8 HIGH

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