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Vulnerability details: VCID-nmht-hsfp-eqhm
Vulnerability ID VCID-nmht-hsfp-eqhm
Aliases CVE-2016-2540
Summary Audacity before 2.1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted FORMATCHUNK structure.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 5.0
Risk 2.5
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
System Score Found at
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cvssv2 4.3 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2540
cvssv3 5.5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2540
Reference id Reference type URL
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-2540
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2540
https://fortiguard.com/zeroday/FG-VD-15-116
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00012.html
http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Release_Notes_2.1.2
cpe:2.3:a:audacityteam:audacity:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:audacityteam:audacity:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2016-2540 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2540
No exploits are available.
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2540
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:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2540
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 0.74834
EPSS Score 0.00908
Published At July 30, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-31T11:54:22.402533+00:00 EPSS Importer Import https://epss.cyentia.com/epss_scores-current.csv.gz 37.0.0