CVE-2016-8221

Privilege Escalation in Lenovo XClarity Administrator earlier than 1.2.0, if LXCA is used to manage rack switches or chassis with embedded input/output modules (IOMs), certain log files viewable by authenticated users may contain passwords for internal administrative LXCA accounts with temporary passwords that are used internally by LXCA code.

Published : 2017-01-12 22:59 Updated : 2017-01-19 15:59

1.9

CVSS Score More info

Score 1.9 / 10

Access vector LOCAL

A vulnerability exploitable with only local access requires the attacker to have either physical access to the vulnerable system or a local (shell) account. Examples of locally exploitable vulnerabilities are peripheral attacks such as Firewire/USB DMA attacks, and local privilege escalations (e.g., sudo).

Access complexity MEDIUM

The access conditions are somewhat specialized; the following are examples:

The attacking party is limited to a group of systems or users at some level of authorization, possibly untrusted.
Some information must be gathered before a successful attack can be launched.
The affected configuration is non-default, and is not commonly configured (e.g., a vulnerability present when a server performs user account authentication via a specific scheme, but not present for another authentication scheme).
The attack requires a small amount of social engineering that might occasionally fool cautious users (e.g., phishing attacks that modify a web browsers status bar to show a false link, having to be on someones buddy list before sending an IM exploit).

Authentication NONE

Authentication is not required to exploit the vulnerability.

Confidentiality impact PARTIAL

There is considerable informational disclosure. Access to some system files is possible, but the attacker does not have control over what is obtained, or the scope of the loss is constrained. An example is a vulnerability that divulges only certain tables in a database.

Integrity impact NONE

There is no impact to the integrity of the system.

Availability impact NONE

There is no impact to the availability of the system.

CPE (1)
Tree view

Vendor	Product	Version	URI
Lenovo	Xclarity Administrator	1.1.1	cpe:/a:lenovo:xclarity_administrator:1.1.1

Lenovo (1) Search CVE
1. Xclarity Administrator (1) Search CVE
  1. 1.1.1

CWE

ID	Name	Description	Links
CWE-264	Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls	Weaknesses in this category are related to the management of permissions, privileges, and other security features that are used to perform access control.		CVE

References

Source	Link
BID	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95417
CONFIRM	https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/LEN_10605

History of changes

Date	Event
2017-01-12 22:59	New CVE