CVE-2016-4074

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

5.33% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 91.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

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

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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

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

2016-05-06 17:00Z10 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 00:17Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2016-04-24

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-770Allocation of Resources Without Limits or ThrottlingBase
• CWE-400Uncontrolled Resource ConsumptionClass

Data version

5.1

Document digest

c90d2c394c6d5d432b6e7bedc6885f39fcdb28dc0234c435d702274439d054e6

• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20160424 Re: CVE Request: jq: stack exhaustion using jv_dump_term() functionhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/24/4mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• github.comhttps://github.com/stedolan/jq/issues/1136x_refsource_MISC
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20160424 CVE Request: jq: stack exhaustion using jv_dump_term() functionhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/24/3mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• github.comhttps://github.com/stedolan/jq/x_refsource_MISC
• github.comhttps://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/18908x_refsource_MISC
• github.comhttps://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/10263x_refsource_MISC