CVE-2016-9489
ManageEngine Applications Manager 12 and 13 is vulnerable to privilege escalation and authentication bypass
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- certcc
Description
In ManageEngine Applications Manager 12 and 13 before build 13200, an authenticated user is able to alter all of their own properties, including own group, i.e. changing their group to one with higher privileges like "ADMIN". A user is also able to change properties of another user, e.g. change another user's password.
Timeline
ID reserved
By certcc
- 20 months later
· 20 months later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.7% · top 23% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Weakness
Affected products
ManageEngine · Applications Manager
- affected 12
- affected 13
References (3)
- https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/security-updates/security-updates-cve-2016-9489.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 20170404 ManageEngine Applications Manager Multiple Vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- 97394 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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