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Vulnerability details: VCID-rsr7-p977-tycc
Vulnerability ID VCID-rsr7-p977-tycc
Aliases CVE-2016-4450
Summary NULL pointer dereference while writing client request body
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 6.8
Risk 3.4
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
Reference id Reference type URL
http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-announce/2016/000179.html
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2016-4450.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-4450
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4450
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-announce/2016/000179.html
https://nginx.org/download/patch.2016.write2.txt
https://nginx.org/download/patch.2016.write2.txt.asc
https://nginx.org/download/patch.2016.write.txt
https://nginx.org/download/patch.2016.write.txt.asc
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3592
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90967
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036019
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2991-1
1341462 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1341462
825960 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=825960
cpe:2.3:a:f5:nginx:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:f5:nginx:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:f5:nginx:1.11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:f5:nginx:1.11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*
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:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2016-4450 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4450
GLSA-201606-06 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-06
RHSA-2016:1425 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1425
USN-2991-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/2991-1/
No exploits are available.
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/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

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4450
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:3.1/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-2016-4450
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 0.88405
EPSS Score 0.04016
Published At April 1, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-04-01T12:31:45.778257+00:00 Nginx Importer Import https://nginx.org/en/security_advisories.html 38.0.0