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CVE-2016-8202

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CVE-2016-8202

Published: May 8, 2017

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

VendorProductVersions

Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

Fibre Channel SAN products running Brocade Fabric OS (FOS).

affected
Fabric OS (FOS) releases earlier than v7.4.1d and v8.0.1b

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