CVE-2016-6525

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

3.77% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 89.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

9.8 (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:H/I:H/A:H

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

2016-09-22 15:00Z10 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 01:29Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2016-08-03

Assigning CNA

mitre

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

Data version

5.1

Document digest

34542f00a1478083e2cf2cb8d1d6290017538b9c865aee1a18f03af8a9a2d84b

• www.debian.orgDSA-3655http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3655vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20160803 Re: CVE request:Heap overflow vulns in MuPDFhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/03/8mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• bugs.ghostscript.comhttp://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696954x_refsource_CONFIRM
• www.securityfocus.com92266http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92266vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• git.ghostscript.comhttp://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git%3Bh=39b0f07dd960f34e7e6bf230ffc3d87c41ef0f2ex_refsource_CONFIRM
• security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201702-12https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-12vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO