CVE-2016-9486
On Windows endpoints, the SecureConnector agent is vulnerable to privilege escalation whereby an authenticated unprivileged user can obtain administrator privileges on the endpoint because files are created in a folder with incorrect privileges
02 Description
On Windows endpoints, the SecureConnector agent is vulnerable to privilege escalation whereby an authenticated unprivileged user can obtain administrator privileges on the endpoint because files are created in a folder with incorrect privileges
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.33% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 70.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2018-07-13 20:00Z8 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 02:50Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2016-11-21
- Assigning CNA
- certcc
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 0394cf772fbe10b0de4ed519a00e6913ef85ed185f815dad6f9e65c9c38b7942
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.kb.cert.orgVU#768331https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/768331
- www.securityfocus.com94740http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94740
07 Remediation
The vendor has released the HPS Inspection Engine Plugin, version 10.4.1.1 to address the vulnerability.