What is CVE-2016-5797?

CVE-2016-5797 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Tollgrade Lighthouse Sms, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2016-07-15.

How severe is CVE-2016-5797?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Tollgrade Lighthouse Sms

CVE-2016-5797

Tollgrade LightHouse SMS before 5.1 patch 3 provides different error messages for failed authentication attempts depending on whether the username exists, which allows remote attackers to enumerate account names via a series of attempts.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

EPSS: 0.013 (67.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Tollgrade Lighthouse_sms
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

ics-cert@hq.dhs.gov (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
ics-cert@hq.dhs.gov (US Government Resource, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-5797?: CVE-2016-5797 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Tollgrade Lighthouse Sms, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2016-07-15.
How severe is CVE-2016-5797?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.