CVE-2016-5017

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

6.79% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 93.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

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

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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

2016-09-21 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-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
• CWE-122Heap-based Buffer OverflowVariant

Data version

5.1

Document digest

2b59e6b84af9fb534fe59afb3475abe60b33e42b24823a244395d723ea7206d0

• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20160916 [SECURITY] CVE-2016-5017: Buffer overflow vulnerability in ZooKeeper C cli shellhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/17/3mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• www.securityfocus.com93044http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93044vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• lists.apache.org[activemq-issues] 20190820 [jira] [Created] (AMQ-7279) Security Vulnerabilities in Libraries - jackson-databind-2.9.8.jar, tomcat-servlet-api-8.0.53.jar, tomcat-websocket-api-8.0.53.jar, zookeeper-3.4.6.jar, guava-18.0.jar, jetty-all-9.2.26.v20180806.jar, scala-library-2.11.0.jarhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/053d9ce4d579b02203db18545fee5e33f35f2932885459b74d1e4272%40%3Cissues.activemq.apache.org%3Emailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• lists.apache.org[nifi-commits] 20191113 svn commit: r1869773 - /nifi/site/trunk/security.htmlhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/bcce5a9c532b386c68dab2f6b3ce8b0cc9b950ec551766e76391caa3%40%3Ccommits.nifi.apache.org%3Emailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• lists.apache.org[nifi-commits] 20200123 svn commit: r1873083 - /nifi/site/trunk/security.htmlhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rca37935d661f4689cb4119f1b3b224413b22be161b678e6e6ce0c69b%40%3Ccommits.nifi.apache.org%3Emailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• www.oracle.comhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.htmlx_refsource_MISC
• www.cloudera.comhttps://www.cloudera.com/documentation/other/security-bulletins/topics/csb_topic_1.htmlx_refsource_CONFIRM
• git-wip-us.apache.orghttps://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=zookeeper.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=27ecf981a15554dc8e64a28630af7a5c9e2bdf4fx_refsource_CONFIRM
• zookeeper.apache.orghttps://zookeeper.apache.org/security.html#CVE-2016-5017x_refsource_CONFIRM
• packetstormsecurity.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/138755/ZooKeeper-3.4.8-3.5.2-Buffer-Overflow.htmlx_refsource_MISC
• git-wip-us.apache.orghttps://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=zookeeper.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=f09154d6648eeb4ec5e1ac8a2bacbd2f8c87c14ax_refsource_CONFIRM
• lists.apache.org[dubbo-notifications] 20211101 [GitHub] [dubbo] AlbumenJ opened a new issue #9177: Upgrade Zookeeper dependencyhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r4b743f407244294f316325458ccaabfce9cd70ca3a6423dbe574035c%40%3Cnotifications.dubbo.apache.org%3Emailing-listx_refsource_MLIST