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Vulnerability details: VCID-ga8a-289h-cbcw
Vulnerability ID VCID-ga8a-289h-cbcw
Aliases CVE-2016-10739
Summary In the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) through 2.28, the getaddrinfo function would successfully parse a string that contained an IPv4 address followed by whitespace and arbitrary characters, which could lead applications to incorrectly assume that it had parsed a valid string, without the possibility of embedded HTTP headers or other potentially dangerous substrings.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 6.2
Risk 3.1
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
System Score Found at
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cvssv3 4.5 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv2 4.6 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10739
cvssv3 5.3 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10739
archlinux Medium https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-1984
Reference id Reference type URL
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00082.html
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2118
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3513
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2016-10739.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-10739
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1347549
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-10739
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20018
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106672
920047 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=920047
AVG-1984 https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-1984
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2016-10739 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10739
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10739
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10739
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.04839
EPSS Score 0.00024
Published At Sept. 13, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-31T10:00:46.028965+00:00 NVD Importer Import https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10739 37.0.0