CVE-2016-0916: Emc Networker

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 7.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

EMC NetWorker 8.2.1.x and 8.2.2.x before 8.2.2.6 and 9.x before 9.0.0.6 mishandles authentication, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by leveraging access to a different NetWorker instance.

Affected products

• Emc Networker: from 8.2.1.0, up to and including 8.2.1.8; from 8.2.2.0, before 8.2.2.6 (fixed in 8.2.2.6); from 9.0.0.0, before 9.0.0.6 (fixed in 9.0.0.6)

Published 2016-06-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.