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CVE-2016-3642 (GCVE-0-2016-3642)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-06-17 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 00:03
VLAI
Summary
The RMI service in SolarWinds Virtualization Manager 6.3.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted serialized Java object, related to the Apache Commons Collections (ACC) library.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Jun/25 mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Jun/29 mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/137486/Solar… x_refsource_MISC
Date Public
2016-06-14 00:00
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