What is CVE-2016-5709?

CVE-2016-5709 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Solarwinds Virtualization_manager, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 4.7/10. Published 2016-06-24.

How severe is CVE-2016-5709?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.7 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Solarwinds Virtualization_manager

CVE-2016-5709

SolarWinds Virtualization Manager 6.3.1 and earlier uses weak encryption to store passwords in /etc/shadow, which allows local users with superuser privileges to obtain user passwords via a brute force attack.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

EPSS: 0.014 (69.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.7 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Solarwinds Virtualization_manager
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_FULLDISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-5709?: CVE-2016-5709 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Solarwinds Virtualization_manager, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 4.7/10. Published 2016-06-24.
How severe is CVE-2016-5709?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.7 out of 10.