CVE-2016-8202
Description
A privilege escalation vulnerability in Brocade Fibre Channel SAN products running Brocade Fabric OS (FOS) releases earlier than v7.4.1d and v8.0.1b could allow an authenticated attacker to elevate the privileges of user accounts accessing the system via command line interface. With affected versions, non-root users can gain root access with a combination of shell commands and parameters.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98332
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038401
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbst03739en_us
- https://www.broadcom.com/support/fibre-channel-networking/security-advisories/brocade-security-advisory-2017-208
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98332
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038401
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbst03739en_us
- https://www.broadcom.com/support/fibre-channel-networking/security-advisories/brocade-security-advisory-2017-208
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.