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CVE-2016-3643: SolarWinds Virtualization Manager Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: yes — in CISA KEV since 2021-11-03
• EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2016-06-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

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 products

• SolarWinds Virtualization Manager: through 6.3.1

References

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/137487/Solarwinds-Virtualization-Manager-6.3.1-Privilege-Escalation.html
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Jun/26
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39967/
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/137487/Solarwinds-Virtualization-Manager-6.3.1-Privilege-Escalation.html
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Jun/26
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39967/
• https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2016-3643

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