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Vulnerability details: VCID-qze5-cvx4-s3d5
Vulnerability ID VCID-qze5-cvx4-s3d5
Aliases CVE-2016-0718
Summary Security researcher Gustavo Grieco reported a potential out-of-bounds read parsing malformed XML data during character conversion. This is due to a bug in the Expat library, which is used in Firefox. This could allow an attacker to read other inaccessible memory.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 3.4
Risk 1.7
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read
System Score Found at
epss 0.01771 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-0718
epss 0.01771 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-0718
epss 0.01771 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-0718
epss 0.01771 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-0718
epss 0.01771 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-0718
epss 0.01771 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-0718
epss 0.01771 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-0718
epss 0.01771 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-0718
epss 0.01771 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-0718
epss 0.01771 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-0718
epss 0.01771 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-0718
epss 0.01771 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-0718
epss 0.01771 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-0718
epss 0.0182 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-0718
epss 0.0182 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-0718
epss 0.02267 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-0718
epss 0.02267 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-0718
cvssv2 6.8 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
generic_textual none https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-68
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2016-0718.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-0718
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4472
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
1296102 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1296102
CVE-2016-0718 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-0718
mfsa2016-68 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-68
RHSA-2016:2824 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2824
USN-2983-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/2983-1/
USN-3013-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3013-1/
USN-3044-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3044-1/
USN-7199-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/7199-1/
USN-USN-5455-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/USN-5455-1/
No exploits are available.
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P 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
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.81874
EPSS Score 0.01771
Published At July 30, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-31T08:10:14.218828+00:00 Mozilla Importer Import https://github.com/mozilla/foundation-security-advisories/blob/master/announce/2016/mfsa2016-68.md 37.0.0