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CVE-2019-16103· NVD / CVE Program· CNA mitre

Silver Peak EdgeConnect SD-WAN before 8.1.7.x allows privilege escalation (by administrators) from the menu to a root Bash OS shell via the

Silver Peak EdgeConnect SD-WAN before 8.1.7.x allows privilege escalation (by administrators) from the menu to a root Bash OS shell via the spsshell feature.

HighCVSS 7.2 · v3.0—No exploit No fix recorded
Published
Sep 8, 2019
Updated
Jun 16, 2026
EPSS
1.8% · 78th percentile
CWE
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Action score

29

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Low priority for now.

CVSS
28 / 40 · 7.2 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
1 / 30 · 1.8%

Affected systems

VendorProduct
silver-peakunity edgeconnect sd-wan firmware
silver-peakunity edgeconnect sd-wan

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • silver-peak unity edgeconnect sd-wan firmware8.1.4.9_65644

Same product

silver-peak: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2019-16102Silver Peak EdgeConnect SD-WAN before 8.1.7.x has an SNMP service with a public value for rocommunity and trapcommunity.
    39Monitor
  • CVE-2019-16099Silver Peak EdgeConnect SD-WAN before 8.1.7.x allows CSRF via JSON data to a .swf file.
    35Monitor
  • CVE-2019-16100Silver Peak EdgeConnect SD-WAN before 8.1.7.x allows remote attackers to trigger a web-interface outage via slow client-side HTTP traffic fr
    31Monitor
  • CVE-2019-16104Silver Peak EdgeConnect SD-WAN before 8.1.7.x has reflected XSS via the rest/json/configdb/download/ PATH_INFO.
    24Monitor
  • CVE-2019-16101Silver Peak EdgeConnect SD-WAN before 8.1.7.x allows remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive stack traces by sending incorrect JSON
    21Monitor
  • CVE-2019-16105Silver Peak EdgeConnect SD-WAN before 8.1.7.x allows ..%2f directory traversal via a rest/json/configdb/download/ URI.
    20Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

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No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • Administrator privileges are required.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
high · data can be read
Integrity
high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
high · the service can be disrupted
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
High
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
High
Integrity impact
High
Availability impact
High

Weakness class (CWE)

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CVSS vector

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

nvd-primary

Attack context

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Change log

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