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Vulnerability details: VCID-jr1n-s7cr-6kfp
Vulnerability ID VCID-jr1n-s7cr-6kfp
Aliases CVE-2016-4970
GHSA-rv63-gqm8-9w8q
Summary
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 8.0
Risk 4.0
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
cvssv3.1 7.5 http://netty.io/news/2016/06/07/4-0-37-Final.html
generic_textual HIGH http://netty.io/news/2016/06/07/4-0-37-Final.html
cvssv3.1 7.5 http://netty.io/news/2016/06/07/4-1-1-Final.html
generic_textual HIGH http://netty.io/news/2016/06/07/4-1-1-Final.html
cvssv3.1 7.5 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0179.html
generic_textual HIGH http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0179.html
cvssv3.1 7.5 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-1097.html
generic_textual HIGH http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-1097.html
cvssv3 3.7 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2016-4970.json
epss 0.0823 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-4970
epss 0.0823 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-4970
epss 0.0823 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-4970
epss 0.0823 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-4970
epss 0.0823 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-4970
epss 0.0823 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-4970
epss 0.0823 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-4970
epss 0.0823 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-4970
epss 0.0823 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-4970
epss 0.0823 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-4970
epss 0.0823 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-4970
cvssv3.1 7.5 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1343616
generic_textual HIGH https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1343616
cvssv3.1_qr HIGH https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rv63-gqm8-9w8q
cvssv3.1 7.5 https://github.com/netty/netty
generic_textual HIGH https://github.com/netty/netty
cvssv3.1 7.5 https://github.com/netty/netty/pull/5364
generic_textual HIGH https://github.com/netty/netty/pull/5364
cvssv3.1 7.5 https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/afaa5860e3a6d327eb96c3d82cbd2f5996de815a16854ed1ad310144@%3Ccommits.cassandra.apache.org%3E
generic_textual HIGH https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/afaa5860e3a6d327eb96c3d82cbd2f5996de815a16854ed1ad310144@%3Ccommits.cassandra.apache.org%3E
cvssv3.1 7.5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4970
generic_textual HIGH https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4970
cvssv3.1 7.5 https://wiki.opendaylight.org/view/Security_Advisories
generic_textual HIGH https://wiki.opendaylight.org/view/Security_Advisories
Reference id Reference type URL
http://netty.io/news/2016/06/07/4-0-37-Final.html
http://netty.io/news/2016/06/07/4-1-1-Final.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0179.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-1097.html
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2016-4970.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-4970
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1343616
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4970
https://github.com/netty/netty
https://github.com/netty/netty/commit/524156f164a910b8b0978d27a2c700a19cd8048
https://github.com/netty/netty/commit/9e2c400f89c5badc39919f811179d3d42ac5257c
https://github.com/netty/netty/pull/5364
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/afaa5860e3a6d327eb96c3d82cbd2f5996de815a16854ed1ad310144@%3Ccommits.cassandra.apache.org%3E
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4970
https://wiki.opendaylight.org/view/Security_Advisories
827620 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=827620
GHSA-rv63-gqm8-9w8q https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rv63-gqm8-9w8q
RHSA-2017:0179 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0179
RHSA-2017:1097 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1097
RHSA-2020:3192 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3192
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at http://netty.io/news/2016/06/07/4-0-37-Final.html
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at http://netty.io/news/2016/06/07/4-1-1-Final.html
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0179.html
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-1097.html
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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2016-4970.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1343616
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://github.com/netty/netty
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://github.com/netty/netty/pull/5364
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/afaa5860e3a6d327eb96c3d82cbd2f5996de815a16854ed1ad310144@%3Ccommits.cassandra.apache.org%3E
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4970
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://wiki.opendaylight.org/view/Security_Advisories
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.91775
EPSS Score 0.0823
Published At June 30, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-01T11:55:22.036189+00:00 ProjectKB MSRImporter Import https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SAP/project-kb/master/MSR2019/dataset/vulas_db_msr2019_release.csv 36.1.3