November 3, 2021 · Applied Cybernetics Group
CVE-2016-3643 — SolarWinds Virtualization Manager
SolarWinds Virtualization Manager Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
- Added to KEV
2021-11-03- Federal due date
2022-05-03- Vendor
- SolarWinds
- Product
- Virtualization Manager
- EPSS
- 88.5th percentile (score 0.037, as of
2026-07-13) - NVD CVSS v3.1
- —
- Ransomware use
- Unknown
- Upstream
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3643
CISA short description
SolarWinds Virtualization Manager allows for privilege escalation through leveraging a misconfiguration of sudo.
Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.