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Vulnerability details: VCID-nbhp-uypk-h7g2
Vulnerability ID VCID-nbhp-uypk-h7g2
Aliases CVE-2016-6346
GHSA-wxvr-vqfp-9cqw
Summary Denial of service in JBoss resteasy RESTEasy enables GZIPInterceptor, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors.
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (2)
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 7.5 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2016-6346.json
epss 0.01184 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-6346
cvssv3.1 7.5 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1372120
generic_textual HIGH https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1372120
cvssv3.1 7.5 https://github.com/resteasy/Resteasy
generic_textual HIGH https://github.com/resteasy/Resteasy
cvssv3.1 7.5 https://github.com/resteasy/resteasy/pull/1303
generic_textual HIGH https://github.com/resteasy/resteasy/pull/1303
cvssv3.1 7.5 https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBEAP-11180
generic_textual HIGH https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBEAP-11180
cvssv3.1 7.5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6346
generic_textual HIGH https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6346
cvssv3.1 7.5 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92744
generic_textual HIGH http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92744
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2016-6346.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-6346
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1372120
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6346
https://github.com/resteasy/Resteasy
https://github.com/resteasy/resteasy/pull/1303
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBEAP-11180
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6346
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92744
837170 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=837170
RHSA-2017:0517 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0517
RHSA-2017:0826 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0826
RHSA-2017:0827 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0827
RHSA-2017:0828 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0828
RHSA-2017:0829 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0829
USN-7630-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/7630-1/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2016-6346.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:3.0/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=1372120
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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://github.com/resteasy/Resteasy
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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://github.com/resteasy/resteasy/pull/1303
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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBEAP-11180
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:3.0/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-2016-6346
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:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92744
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 0.79084
EPSS Score 0.01184
Published At May 29, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-05-29T09:35:38.163662+00:00 GithubOSV Importer Import https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2022/05/GHSA-wxvr-vqfp-9cqw/GHSA-wxvr-vqfp-9cqw.json 38.6.0