CVE-2016-7966

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

2.34% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 83.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

7.3 (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:L/I:L/A:L

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

2016-12-23 22:00Z9 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 02:13Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2016-09-09

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-94Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')Base
• CWE-88Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')Base

Data version

5.1

Document digest

c1c2c707c2e0ceb086aa8ca2a92c6092f1653a9115ab19b1872c028962f80a37

• www.securityfocus.com93360http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93360vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20161004 Re: KMail vulnerabilites: need 3 CVEhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/05/1mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2016-92c112a380https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QNMM5TVPTJQFPJ3YDF4DPXDFW3GQLWLY/vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
• lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2016:2559http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-10/msg00065.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
• www.debian.orgDSA-3697http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3697vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN