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Fencer Vulns
high 7.8

CVE-2016-2288 json

Cogent DataHub before 7.3.10 allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging the user or guest role to modify a file.

published 2016-03-29 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-3372

cvss
7.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.3%
EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 71%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Cogent DataHub before 7.3.10 allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging the user or guest role to modify a file.

Vendor advisories

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

cisa ICSA-16-084-01 updated cvss 7.8

Cogent DataHub Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

  • Cogent Real-Time Systems Inc Cogent DataHub <=7.3.9
    affected: mitigation

From CISA ICS and IT advisories (CSAF, https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF), a U.S. Government work; changed: reduced to products, statuses and remediations. CISA notification · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-39630)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

1.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 71% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-39630 Cogent Datahub 7.3.9 Gamma Script - Local Privilege Escalation local, 2016-03-28

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/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.