CVE-2016-10040

Exploitation

Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.

SSVC decision

Not assessed by CISA

EPSS probability

1.92% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 78.5% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

5.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

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

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2017-03-07 15:00Z9 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 03:07Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2016-12-24

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
• CWE-776Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')Base

Data version

5.1

Document digest

b6943d5925824768d2409c2183a75e3b2f99b0c9c6afe9fc79dd5db7fc9761c7

• www.securityfocus.com95113http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95113vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1409597x_refsource_CONFIRM
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20161224 Re: Qt QXmlSimpleReaderhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/24/2mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20170114 Re: [Security] Qt QXmlSimpleReaderhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/14/4mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST