CVE-2016-1521

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

4.06% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 89.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

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

NVD CVSS vector

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

NVD analysis status

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

Red Hat severity

Important. 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

2016-02-13 02:00Z10 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-05 23:02Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2016-01-07

Assigning CNA

certcc

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-125Out-of-bounds ReadBase

Data version

5.1

Document digest

12b0eff25a2db2bbf5355c20bcbd7ad788d680b54102c558c7e601bb12202238

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