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Fencer Vulns
high 8.8

CVE-2016-2160 json

Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.2 and OpenShift Origin allow remote authenticated users to execute commands with root privileges by changing…

published 2016-06-08 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-3252

cvss
8.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.1%
EPSS 4.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 90%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.2 and OpenShift Origin allow remote authenticated users to execute commands with root privileges by changing the root password in an sti builder image.

Patch / fix

  • atomic-openshift openshift 3.2 3.2.0.20-1.git.0.f44746c.el7
  • nodejs-proxy-addr openshift 3.2 1.0.8-2.el7aos
  • atomic-openshift-pod openshift 3.2 3.2.0.20-1.git.0.f44746c.el7
  • atomic-openshift-node openshift 3.2 3.2.0.20-1.git.0.f44746c.el7
  • atomic-openshift-tests openshift 3.2 3.2.0.20-1.git.0.f44746c.el7
  • atomic-openshift-master openshift 3.2 3.2.0.20-1.git.0.f44746c.el7
  • atomic-openshift-clients openshift 3.2 3.2.0.20-1.git.0.f44746c.el7
  • atomic-openshift-recycle openshift 3.2 3.2.0.20-1.git.0.f44746c.el7

red hat advisories RHSA-2016:1064

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-2160 updated cvss 7.1

Privilege escalation when changing root password in sti builder image

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.2 atomic-openshift 3.2.0.20-1.git.0.f44746c.el7, atomic-openshift-pod 3.2.0.20-1.git.0.f44746c.el7, atomic-openshift-node 3.2.0.20-1.git.0.f44746c.el7, atomic-openshift-tests 3.2.0.20-1.git.0.f44746c.el7, atomic-openshift-master 3.2.0.20-1.git.0.f44746c.el7, atomic-openshift-clients 3.2.0.20-1.git.0.f44746c.el7, +5 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:1064
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.2 cockpit 0.93-3.el7, fb303 0.9.1-12.el7, thrift 0.9.1-12.el7, fluentd 0.12.20-1.el7, jenkins 1.642.2-1.el7, kibana 4.1.2-2.el7aos, +376 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

4.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90% 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

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.