CVE-2016-5697

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

1.20% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 68.1% 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:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

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

2017-01-23 21:00Z9 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 01:07Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2016-06-16

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-91XML Injection (aka Blind XPath Injection)Base

Data version

5.1

Document digest

d90f52222819602e6671cb1712d10a8b80311c12f3ef39af333192525d3ec835

• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20160624 [CVE-2016-5697] signature wrapping attack vulnerability in ruby-saml prior to version 1.3.0 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/24/3 MLIST:[oss-security] 06/24/2016 Re: [CVE-2016-5697] signature wrapping attack vulnerability in ruby-saml prior to version 1.3.0http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/24/3mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST