CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2016-3642

Virtualization Manager vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
13.3%
EPSS pct
96th
Exploited
No known
The RMI service in SolarWinds Virtualization Manager 6.3.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted serialized Java object, related to the Apache Commons Collections (ACC) library.
Affected vendor
Solarwinds
Affected product
Virtualization Manager
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Published
2016-06-17

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 13.3% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2016-3642

  • Confirm whether Solarwinds Virtualization Manager is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2016-3642.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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