CVE-2016-6489

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

5.00% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 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:H/I:N/A:N

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

2017-04-14 18:00Z9 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 01:29Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2016-07-28

Assigning CNA

debian

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-203Observable DiscrepancyBase

Data version

5.1

Document digest

e478ee629eed9f10f367de3aeb7b058cfb547a5b46dfec6887a59d3afd205395

• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20160729 Re: CVE Request: nettle's RSA code is vulnerable to cache sharing related attackshttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/29/7mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• www.ubuntu.comUSN-3193-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3193-1vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
• security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201706-21https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-21vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
• git.lysator.liu.sehttps://git.lysator.liu.se/nettle/nettle/commit/3fe1d6549765ecfb24f0b80b2ed086fdc818bff3x_refsource_CONFIRM
• bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1362016x_refsource_CONFIRM
• eprint.iacr.orghttps://eprint.iacr.org/2016/596.pdfx_refsource_MISC
• rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2016:2582http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2582.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
• www.oracle.comhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.htmlx_refsource_MISC