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CVE-2016-7836

9.8, critical Known exploited

SKYSEA Client View Improper Authentication Vulnerability

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CVSS
9.8, critical critical CVSS v3.1
EPSS, next 30 days
19% higher than 97.3% of scored CVEs
Exploitation
Confirmed in the wild
Published
9 Jun 20179 years ago

Known exploited

CISA added this to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog on 14 Oct 2025. US federal agencies had to remediate by 4 Nov 2025, a deadline that has passed.

Required action. Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Description

SKYSEA Client View Ver.11.221.03 and earlier allows remote code execution via a flaw in processing authentication on the TCP connection with the management console program.

Details

Vendor
SKYSEA
Product
SKYSEA Client View
Weakness
CWE-287 (opens in a new tab)
Status
Analyzed
Updated
17 Jun 2026
Assigner
vultures@jpcert.or.jp

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References 5

Exploit code 1

Advisories 3

Other references 1

The kind is read from NVD's tags where present and from the shape of the URL otherwise, so treat it as a hint.

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Assembled from the NVD 2.0 API, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and FIRST EPSS. Scores are as of our last collection on 16 Oct 2026, not the live upstream state.