CVE-2016-8202

High

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.

SeverityHigh
CVSS8.8
Exploit probability—
ProductBroadcom Fabric Operating System
PublishedMay 8, 2017
First seenMay 8, 2017

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
broadcom fabric_operating_systemv ≤ 7.4.1c, 8.0.1—

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