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Fencer Vulns
high 8.8

CVE-2016-1597 json

A logged-in user in NetIQ Access Governance Suite 6.0 through 6.4 could escalate privileges to administrator.

published 2017-03-23 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-2692

cvss
8.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.2%
EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 69%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A logged-in user in NetIQ Access Governance Suite 6.0 through 6.4 could escalate privileges to administrator.

Exploit prediction

1.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 69% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 9.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

  • n/a Access Governance Suite

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.