CVE-2016-5709

2016-06-2417:00:00

mitre

www.cve.org

4.5 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

JSON

SolarWinds Virtualization Manager 6.3.1 and earlier uses weak encryption to store passwords in /etc/shadow, which allows local users with superuser privileges to obtain user passwords via a brute force attack.

References

packetstormsecurity.com/files/137525/Solarwinds-Virtualization-Manager-6.3.1-Weak-Crypto.html

seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Jun/38