CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-16791

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2018-12-05 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-12-05
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-522

Description

In SolarWinds SFTP/SCP Server through 2018-09-10, the configuration file is world readable and writable, and stores user passwords in an insecure manner, allowing an attacker to determine passwords for potentially privileged accounts. This also grants the attacker an ability to backdoor the server.

Affected configurations

• solarwinds sftp\/scp server (<= 20180910)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials weakness

References