CVE-2016-1597

high

Published 2017-03-23 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

8.8

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.8

Description

A logged-in user in NetIQ Access Governance Suite 6.0 through 6.4 could escalate privileges to administrator.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

92%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
netiq	access_governance_suite	`6.0`
netiq	access_governance_suite	`6.1`
netiq	access_governance_suite	`6.2`
netiq	access_governance_suite	`6.3`
netiq	access_governance_suite	`6.4`

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.