CVE-2016-8729

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

1.51% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 74.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

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

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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

2018-04-24 19:00Z8 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-09-16 17:24Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2016-10-17

Assigning CNA

talos

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

High (CVSS 7.5)

CNA CVSS vector

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

Weaknesses

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass

Data version

5.1

Document digest

eccc1d789086769af94aab6239a7031c4b2f17f8ccb69ac2c3dfb4648d4fe20f

• www.talosintelligence.comhttps://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2016-0243x_refsource_MISC
• bugs.ghostscript.comhttps://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697395
• cgit.ghostscript.comhttps://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/jbig2dec.git/commit/?id=e698d5c11d27212aa1098bc5b1673a3378563092
• cgit.ghostscript.comhttps://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/mupdf.git/commit/?id=1a7ef61410884daff8ff8391ddcecc3102acd989