CVE-2016-8202: Broadcom Fabric Operating System

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 3.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A privilege escalation vulnerability in Brocade Fibre Channel SAN products running Brocade Fabric OS (FOS) releases earlier than v7.4.1d and v8.0.1b could allow an authenticated attacker to elevate the privileges of user accounts accessing the system via command line interface. With affected versions, non-root users can gain root access with a combination of shell commands and parameters.

Affected products

• Broadcom Fabric Operating System: up to and including 7.4.1c; version 8.0.1 only

Published 2017-05-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.