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CVE-2016-10519

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-10519 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting the bittorrent-dht library, specifically versions prior to 5.1.3, and consequently impacts products like webtorrent. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this by sending a crafted series of messages to a listening peer, leading to the disclosure of internal memory contents. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, resulting in a high impact on confidentiality. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 5.1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:webtorrent:bittorrent-dht:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.64%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
73.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0164 is in the 56th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: bittorrent-dhtFixed in: 5.1.3

Vendor Advisories (1)

npmGHSA-77g4-36jp-5v3mmedium

Remote Memory Disclosure in bittorrent-dht

Sep 1, 2020

References

github.com / feross/bittorrent-dht/issues/87
Third Party Advisory
nodesecurity.io / advisories/68
Third Party Advisory