# SKYSEA Client View: Client View Improper Authentication Vulnerability · pwn.watch

> SKYSEA Client View contains an improper authentication vulnerability that allows remote code execution via a flaw in processing authentication on the TCP connection with the management console program. Added to CISA KEV on 2025-10-14.

Page: https://pwn.watch/i/skysea-client-view-cve-2016-7836 · generated 2026-10-23T05:50:43.764Z

## Status
- Severity: critical · status: closed · patch: patched
- Product: SKYSEA Client View
- Started: 2025-10-14 · closed: 2025-10-14
- CVEs: CVE-2016-7836
- Affected: See vendor advisory / CISA notes (versions not always listed in KEV feed)
- Fixed in: See vendor advisory linked in sources

## Follow this incident
- RSS (one item per update): https://pwn.watch/i/skysea-client-view-cve-2016-7836/feed.xml
- JSON Feed: https://pwn.watch/i/skysea-client-view-cve-2016-7836/feed.json
- Full data (timeline, sources, posts, agentBrief): https://pwn.watch/i/skysea-client-view-cve-2016-7836.json
- This file: https://pwn.watch/i/skysea-client-view-cve-2016-7836/llms.txt

## Updates (newest first)
- 2025-10-14: CISA added CVE-2016-7836 to the KEV catalog (due 2025-11-04).

## Fix brief
# Security brief: SKYSEA Client View: Client View Improper Authentication Vulnerability

Source: https://pwn.watch/i/skysea-client-view-cve-2016-7836 · status: closed (closed Oct 14, 2025) · severity: critical · updated Oct 14, 2025

## Patch status
**PATCHED: fixed releases exist. Upgrade to a fixed version.**

## What it is
SKYSEA Client View contains an improper authentication vulnerability that allows remote code execution via a flaw in processing authentication on the TCP connection with the management console program. Added to CISA KEV on 2025-10-14.

Severity detail: CVSS 9.8 (CISA ADP, v3.1); actively exploited (CISA KEV)

- Product: SKYSEA Client View
- CVE / advisory ids: CVE-2016-7836

## Affected versions
- See vendor advisory / CISA notes (versions not always listed in KEV feed)

## Check whether you're affected
No generic command applies (the product is a hosted service, appliance or desktop app). Check the installed version in its admin UI / About screen and compare with the versions above.

## Fix
Upgrade to one of these fixed versions (or later on the same branch):
- See vendor advisory linked in sources

After upgrading, re-run the checks above and redeploy/restart the affected services.

## Latest updates
- Oct 14, 2025: CISA added CVE-2016-7836 to the KEV catalog (due 2025-11-04).

## Advisories
- [SKYSEA advisory: SKYSEA Client View](https://www.skyseaclientview.net/news/161221/) (SKYSEA)
- [NVD: CVE-2016-7836](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7836) (NVD)
- [CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog](https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog) (CISA)

## Caveats
Derived from CISA KEV JSON feed catalogVersion 2026.10.21. CVSS from the CVE record (cvelistV5). Exact affected/fixed version strings are not always in the KEV record; verify against the vendor advisory URL. startedAt uses dateAdded (exploitation may have begun earlier; many entries are older CVEs newly confirmed as exploited in 2025).

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Machine-readable: https://pwn.watch/i/skysea-client-view-cve-2016-7836.json · all incidents: https://pwn.watch/incidents.json. Verify against the vendor advisory before changing production systems.