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CVE-2016-8221

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.0 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-01-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

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 products

• Lenovo XClarity Administrator: through 1.1.1

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95417
• https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/LEN_10605
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95417
• https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/LEN_10605

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