CVE-2016-0862
General Electric (GE) Industrial Solutions UPS SNMP/Web Adapter devices with firmware before 4.8 allow remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive cleartext account information via unspecified vectors.
Does this matter?
A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB (verified), so the technical barrier is gone even though the severity is medium and EPSS is 9.9%. Treat it as high on anything reachable from the internet.
Description
General Electric (GE) Industrial Solutions UPS SNMP/Web Adapter devices with firmware before 4.8 allow remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive cleartext account information via unspecified vectors.
- CVSS 3.0
- 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- EPSS
- 9.93% probability · 96th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 4 February 2016
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-200
- Affected
- ge/snmp\/web adapter firmware
- Source
- ics-cert@hq.dhs.gov
EPSS moved from 8.6% on 21 September 2026 to 9.9% on 26 October 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.
Public exploits (1)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
References
- http://apps.geindustrial.com/publibrary/checkout/Application%20and%20Technical%7CGEIS_SNMP%7CPDF&filename=GEIS_SNMP.pdfVendor Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/135586/GE-Industrial-Solutions-UPS-SNMP-Adapter-Command-Injection.htmlThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Feb/21Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSA-16-033-02Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39408/Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://apps.geindustrial.com/publibrary/checkout/Application%20and%20Technical%7CGEIS_SNMP%7CPDF&filename=GEIS_SNMP.pdfVendor Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/135586/GE-Industrial-Solutions-UPS-SNMP-Adapter-Command-Injection.htmlThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Feb/21Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSA-16-033-02Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39408/Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.