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CVE-2018-16791
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-12-05T22:29:00.227 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:44:49.547

Summary

In SolarWinds SFTP/SCP Server through 2018-09-10, the configuration file is world readable and writable, and stores user passwords in an insecure manner, allowing an attacker to determine passwords for potentially privileged accounts. This also grants the attacker an ability to backdoor the server.

Affected products

solarwinds — sftp\/scp_server

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References

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