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CVE-2016-8202
A privilege escalation vulnerability in Brocade Fibre Channel SAN products running Brocade Fabric OS (FOS) releases earlier than v7.4.1d…
High8.8EPSS 3.1%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- brocade
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.1% · top 12% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Weakness
- Privilege escalation.
- CWE-264 (opens in a new tab)
Affected products
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
References (4)
- 1038401 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbst03739en_us (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 98332 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://www.broadcom.com/support/fibre-channel-networking/security-advisories/brocade-security-advisory-2017-208 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .