CVE-2016-3643 – Misconfiguration of sudo in Solarwinds Virtualization Manager

Posted by Nate Kettlewell on Jun 15

Product: Solarwinds Virtualization Manager

Vendor: Solarwinds
Vulnerable Version(s): < 6.3.1
Tested Version: 6.3.1

Vendor Notification: April 25th, 2016
Vendor Patch Availability to Customers: June 1st, 2016
Public Disclosure: June 14th, 2016

Vulnerability Type: Security Misconfiguration
CVE Reference: CVE-2016-3643
Risk Level: High
CVSSv2 Base Score: 7.8…

[CVE-2014-1520] NOT FIXED: privilege escalation via Mozilla's executable installers

Posted by Stefan Kanthak on Jun 15

Hi @ll,

<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=961676> should
have fixed CVE-2014-1520 in Mozilla’s executable installers for
Windows … but does NOT!

JFTR: this type of vulnerability (really: a bloody stupid trivial
beginner’s error!) is well-known and well-documented as
<https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/379.html>.

Proof of concept/demonstration:
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