CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2016-6532

Imaging Suite vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
3.3%
EPSS pct
87th
Exploited
No known
DEXIS Imaging Suite 10 has a hardcoded password for the sa account, which allows remote attackers to obtain administrative access by entering this password in a DEXIS_DATA SQL Server session.
Affected vendor
Dexis
Affected product
Imaging Suite
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-798 — Use of Hard-coded Credentials
Published
2016-09-24

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 3.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 87% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2016-6532

  • Confirm whether Dexis Imaging Suite is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2016-6532.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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