CVE-2016-8221

Published Jan 12, 2017

Last updated 8 years ago

Overview

Description
Privilege Escalation in Lenovo XClarity Administrator earlier than 1.2.0, if LXCA is used to manage rack switches or chassis with embedded input/output modules (IOMs), certain log files viewable by authenticated users may contain passwords for internal administrative LXCA accounts with temporary passwords that are used internally by LXCA code.
Source
psirt@lenovo.com
NVD status
Analyzed

Risk scores

CVSS 3.0

Type
Primary
Base score
7
Impact score
5.9
Exploitability score
1
Vector string
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity
HIGH

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
1.9
Impact score
2.9
Exploitability score
3.4
Vector string
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-264

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Configurations