VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-6402

high
Published 2016-09-18 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
7.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.8

Description

UCS Manager and UCS 6200 Fabric Interconnects in Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) through 3.0(2d) allow local users to obtain OS root access via crafted CLI input, aka Bug ID CSCuz91263.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.2\(1b\)
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.2\(1c\)
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.2\(1d\)
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.2\(1e\)
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.2\(1f\)
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.2\(1g\)
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.2\(1h\)
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.2\(2c\)
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.2\(2c\)a
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.2\(2d\)
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.2\(2e\)
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.2\(3a\)
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.2\(3b\)
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.2\(3c\)
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.2\(3d\)
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.2\(3e\)
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.2\(3f\)
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.2\(3g\)
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.2\(4b\)
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.2\(4c\)
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.2\(5a\)
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.2\(5b\)a
cisco ciscounified_computing_system2.2_base
cisco ciscounified_computing_system3.0\(1c\)
cisco ciscounified_computing_system3.0\(1d\)
cisco ciscounified_computing_system3.0\(1e\)
cisco ciscounified_computing_system3.0\(2c\)
cisco ciscounified_computing_system3.0\(2d\)

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.