CVE-2016-8221: Lenovo Xclarity Administrator

High severity, CVSS 7.0. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Privilege Escalation in Lenovo XClarity Administrator earlier than 1.2.0, if LXCA is used to manage rack switches or chassis with embedded input/output modules (IOMs), certain log files viewable by authenticated users may contain passwords for internal administrative LXCA accounts with temporary passwords that are used internally by LXCA code.

Affected products

• Lenovo Xclarity Administrator: up to and including 1.1.1

Published 2017-01-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.