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Vulnerability details: VCID-h9rm-4eet-vuhq
Vulnerability ID VCID-h9rm-4eet-vuhq
Aliases CVE-2016-0739
Summary Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in libssh and libssh2, the worst of which allows remote attackers to cause Denial of Service.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 5.3
Risk 2.6
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (2)
Reference id Reference type URL
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/178058.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178822.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-03/msg00111.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0566.html
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2016-0739.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-0739
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-0739
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://puppet.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0739
https://www.libssh.org/2016/02/23/libssh-0-7-3-security-and-bugfix-release/
https://www.libssh.org/security/advisories/CVE-2016-0739.txt
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3488
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2912-1
1305971 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1305971
815663 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=815663
cpe:2.3:a:libssh:libssh:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:libssh:libssh:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:22:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:22:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:23:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:23:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2016-0739 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-0739
GLSA-201606-12 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-12
RHSA-2016:0566 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0566
USN-2912-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/2912-1/
No exploits are available.
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
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: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-0739
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:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-0739
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 0.88842
EPSS Score 0.04313
Published At April 1, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-04-01T13:01:17.320130+00:00 Gentoo Importer Import https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-12 38.0.0