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CVE-2016-8202

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Published: May 8, 2017Modified: May 13, 2026

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8.8
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Exploitability: 2.8 / Impact: 5.9
Source: NVD

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.

Affected (2)

1 product
Fabric Operating System
Configuration A
2 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Broadcom
Up to 7.4.1c
Version 8.0.1

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