01 Record
CVE-2016-1569
FireBird 2.5.5 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) by using service manager to invoke the gbak utility with an invalid parameter.
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: debian
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
FireBird 2.5.5 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) by using service manager to invoke the gbak utility with an invalid parameter.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- 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
- 2.30% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 83.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 6.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
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.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2016-01-13 15:00Z10 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 23:02Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2016-01-10
- Assigning CNA
- debian
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20Improper Input ValidationClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 744b5e1b486ba792446a2f23cf5fa85356d504194897d440b4cd118e3e1913c8
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20160110 CVE Request: FireBird RDBMS: authenticated clients crash FireBird when running gbak with invalid parameterhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/10/2
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20160110 Re: CVE Request: FireBird RDBMS: authenticated clients crash FireBird when running gbak with invalid parameterhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/10/3
- tracker.firebirdsql.orghttp://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-5068
- sourceforge.nethttp://sourceforge.net/p/firebird/code/62783/
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2016-bec6b9c395http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177119.html