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CVE-2016-5709

4.7 mediumEPSS 1.4%

Medium (4.7) in solarwinds virtualization manager. EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

4.7 medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS
1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 72% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-200
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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