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Vulnerability details: VCID-uhs1-t4hc-jqdk
Vulnerability ID VCID-uhs1-t4hc-jqdk
Aliases CVE-2016-3709
Summary Possible cross-site scripting vulnerability in libxml after commit 960f0e2.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 5.5
Risk 2.8
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
System Score Found at
cvssv3 6.1 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2016-3709.json
epss 0.001 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-3709
epss 0.001 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-3709
epss 0.00109 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-3709
epss 0.00109 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-3709
epss 0.00109 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-3709
epss 0.00109 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-3709
epss 0.00109 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-3709
epss 0.00109 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-3709
epss 0.00109 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-3709
epss 0.00109 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-3709
epss 0.00109 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-3709
epss 0.00109 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-3709
epss 0.00109 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-3709
epss 0.00109 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-3709
epss 0.00109 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-3709
epss 0.00109 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-3709
epss 0.00116 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-3709
epss 0.00116 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-3709
epss 0.00116 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-3709
cvssv3.1 6.8 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv3.1 6.1 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3709
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2016-3709.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-3709
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-3709
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2018-January/msg00010.html
2112766 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2112766
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2016-3709 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3709
RHSA-2022:7715 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7715
RHSA-2023:4767 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4767
USN-5548-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/5548-1/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2016-3709.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:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
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:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3709
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

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none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.28318
EPSS Score 0.001
Published At Aug. 13, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-31T08:29:14.709654+00:00 Alpine Linux Importer Import https://secdb.alpinelinux.org/v3.22/main.json 37.0.0