Vulnerability Report

CVE-2016-1601

Title: Suse Yast2

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2016-1601.

CWE Category CWE-255

Published Date Apr 26, 2016

Modified Date May 06, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 9.8 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.45%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2016-1601: yast2-users before 3.1.47, as used in SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1, does not properly set empty password fields in /etc/shadow during an AutoYaST installation when the profile does not contain inst-sys users, which might allow attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors.

Impacted Vendors

suse 4

yast 1

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00051.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00007.html https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=974220 https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/388020 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00051.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00007.html https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=974220 https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/388020

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity CRITICAL

9.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

10.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2016-1601 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

April 26, 2016 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK

Complexity LOW

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.