Security Bulletin: A privilege escalation vulnerability affects Brocade Fibre Channel SAN products IBM Flex System FC5022 16Gb SAN Scalable Switch and Fabric OS firmware for Brocade 8Gb SAN Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter (CVE-2016-8202)

Summary

IBM Flex System FC5022 16Gb SAN Scalable Switch and Fabric OS firmware for Brocade 8Gb SAN Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter have addressed the privilege escalation vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

Summary

IBM Flex System FC5022 16Gb SAN Scalable Switch and Fabric OS firmware for Brocade 8Gb SAN Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter have addressed the privilege escalation vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2016-8202

Description: Brocade Fabric OS could allow a remote authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system. By sending specially-crafted commands and parameters on the command line interface, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain privileges on the system.

CVSS Base Score: 8.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/125666&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected products and versions

Remediation/Fixes

Firmware fix versions are available on Fix Central: <http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/&gt;

References

• Complete CVSS V3 Guide
• On-line Calculator V3

Related Information
IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog
Lenovo Product Security Advisories

Acknowledgement

None.

Change History
22 August, 2017: Original Version Published

• The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

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