CVE-2016-8221

published 2017-01-12

CVE-2016-8221: Privilege Escalation in Lenovo XClarity Administrator earlier than 1.2.0, if LXCA is used to manage rack switches or chassis with embedded input/output modules…

Priority P4 28 high 7 CVSS 3.0

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

Privilege Escalation in Lenovo XClarity Administrator earlier than 1.2.0, if LXCA is used to manage rack switches or chassis with embedded input/output modules (IOMs), certain log files viewable by authenticated users may contain passwords for internal administrative LXCA accounts with temporary passwords that are used internally by LXCA code.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
lenovo	xclarity_administrator	<= 1.1.1	—
lenovo_group_ltd	xclarity_administrator	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 7.0 HIGH CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 1.9 LOW AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

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