CVE-2016-6602

critical
Published 2017-01-23 ยท Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

Description

ZOHO WebNMS Framework 5.2 and 5.2 SP1 use a weak obfuscation algorithm to store passwords, which allows context-dependent attackers to obtain cleartext passwords by leveraging access to WEB-INF/conf/securitydbData.xml. NOTE: this issue can be combined with CVE-2016-6601 for a remote exploit.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
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 โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-40229 webapps jsp
Pedro Ribeiro ยท 2016-08-10

WebNMS Framework Server 5.2/5.2 SP1 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

WebNMS Framework Server Credential Disclosure
Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
zohocorpwebnms_framework5.2

References

CWEs

CWE-327

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

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