CVE-2016-3986

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

7.88% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 94.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

7.8 (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:H/I:H/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.

Published

2016-04-08 16:00Z10 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-09-17 01:46Z1 YR AGO

Reserved

2016-04-08

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

Data version

5.1

Document digest

1d3342446560097a0a7f4827eb9f19045aafe0719421cb41ed158397e1f489f7

• code.google.comhttps://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=668x_refsource_MISC
• www.exploit-db.com39530https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39530/exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
• packetstormsecurity.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/136090/Avast-Authenticode-Parsing-Memory-Corruption.htmlx_refsource_MISC