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CVE-2016-8202
published 2017-05-08

CVE-2016-8202: A privilege escalation vulnerability in Brocade Fibre Channel SAN products running Brocade Fabric OS (FOS) releases earlier than v7.4.1d and v8.0.1b could…

PriorityP356high8.8CVSS 3.0
AVNACLPRLUINSUCHIHAH
EPSS
3.05%
85.9th percentile
A privilege escalation vulnerability in Brocade Fibre Channel SAN products running Brocade Fabric OS (FOS) releases earlier than v7.4.1d and v8.0.1b could allow an authenticated attacker to elevate the privileges of user accounts accessing the system via command line interface. With affected versions, non-root users can gain root access with a combination of shell commands and parameters.

Affected

3 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
broadcomfabric_operating_system<= 7.4.1c
broadcomfabric_operating_system
brocade_communications_systems_incfibre_channel_san_products_running_brocade_fabric_os

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.08.8HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
nvdv2.09.0CRITICALAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
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