CVE-2016-5000

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

4.15% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 90.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

5.5 (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:N/A:N

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

2016-08-05 14:00Z10 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 00:46Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2016-05-24

Assigning CNA

redhat

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-611Improper Restriction of XML External Entity ReferenceBase

Data version

5.1

Document digest

e59ee3be259ca272d7cdba46e0dc7175fdd1496ba0fe939e8ae87f726d0b06c3

• www.securityfocus.com20160722 [CVE-2016-5000] XML External Entity (XXE) Vulnerability in Apache POI's XLSX2CSV Examplehttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/538981/100/0/threadedmailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
• www.securityfocus.com92100http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92100vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• www.securitytracker.com1037741http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037741vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
• lists.apache.org[users] 20160722 [CVE-2016-5000] XML External Entity (XXE) Vulnerability in Apache POI's XLSX2CSV Examplehttps://lists.apache.org/list.html?user%40poi.apache.orgmailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• www.oracle.comhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.htmlx_refsource_MISC
• www-01.ibm.comhttp://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21996759x_refsource_CONFIRM