CVE-2016-4483

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

6.17% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 92.8% 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

Moderate. 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

2017-04-11 16:00Z9 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 00:32Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2016-05-04

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-502Deserialization of Untrusted DataBase
• CWE-122Heap-based Buffer OverflowVariant

Data version

5.1

Document digest

06ae1517c0d8f878b601c0ee629b9946797c12b09e50917b5c719f05efa269cb

• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20160503 CVE request: out-of-bounds read parsing an XML in libxml2 using recover modehttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/03/8mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20160504 Re: CVE request: out-of-bounds read parsing an XML in libxml2 using recover modehttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/04/7mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• git.gnome.orghttps://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=c97750d11bb8b6f3303e7131fe526a61ac65bcfdx_refsource_CONFIRM
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20160607 Re: Please reject duplicate CVE for libxml2http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/07/5mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• www.oracle.comhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.htmlx_refsource_CONFIRM
• www.securityfocus.com90013http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90013vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• www.tenable.comhttps://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-18x_refsource_CONFIRM
• www.debian.orgDSA-3593http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3593vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20160607 Please reject duplicate CVE for libxml2http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/07/4mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2016:2957http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2957.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
• security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201701-37https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-37vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
• www.securitytracker.com1036348http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036348vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
• lists.apache.org[bookkeeper-issues] 20210628 [GitHub] [bookkeeper] padma81 opened a new issue #2746: Security Vulnerabilities in CentOS 7 image, Upgrade image to CentOS 8https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3Emailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• lists.apache.org[bookkeeper-issues] 20210629 [GitHub] [bookkeeper] padma81 opened a new issue #2746: Security Vulnerabilities in CentOS 7 image, Upgrade image to CentOS 8https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3Emailing-listx_refsource_MLIST