CVE-2016-4501 — Environmental Systems Corporation (ESC) 8832 Data Controller 3.02 and earlier mishandles sessions, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and make arbitrary configuration changes via unspecified vectors

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CRITICAL

Environmental Systems Corporation (ESC) 8832 Data Controller 3.02 and earlier mishandles sessions, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and make arbitrary configuration changes via unspecified vectors

Published May 31, 2016

9.1

CRITICAL

CVSS 3.0

EPSS 1.73%

Description

Environmental Systems Corporation (ESC) 8832 Data Controller 3.02 and earlier mishandles sessions, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and make arbitrary configuration changes via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.73% 0.01728

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01728

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (10 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.73% (0.01728)	76.73th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.73% (0.01728)	74.52th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.34% (0.00337)	54.31th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.23% (0.00233)	62.22th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Oct 31, 2023	0.24% (0.00236)	61.55th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.23% (0.00233)	59.54th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.05% (0.01055)	52.13th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 17, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	50.47th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	48.43th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	27.52th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-284

References (1)

https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSA-16-147-01
x_refsource_MISCThird Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource

Link	Providers	Tags
https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSA-16-147-01		x_refsource_MISCThird Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner icscert

Published May 31, 2016

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved May 5, 2016

Link CVE-2016-4501

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2016-4501

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2016-4501