CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-8202
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-05-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
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.
Affected configurations
• broadcom fabric operating system (<= 7.4.1c)
• broadcom fabric operating system 8.0.1
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98332 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038401 www.securitytracker.com
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbst03739en_us Third Party Advisory
- https://www.broadcom.com/support/fibre-channel-networking/security-advisories/brocade-security-advisory-2017-208 www.broadcom.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98332 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038401 www.securitytracker.com
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbst03739en_us Third Party Advisory
- https://www.broadcom.com/support/fibre-channel-networking/security-advisories/brocade-security-advisory-2017-208 www.broadcom.com