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CVE-2016-1544

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-1544 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in nghttp2 versions prior to 1.7.1, specifically affecting Fedora Project's nghttp2 implementations. This flaw allows remote attackers to exhaust memory resources. The vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 3.3, indicating a low attack complexity and impact, primarily leading to availability issues. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code is available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, though it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.7.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:nghttp2:nghttp2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
22CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:22:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
23CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:23:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

3.3LOW

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.89%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
55.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0089 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 1,509 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

fedorapatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-1544Low

nghttp2: out of memory error due to unlimited incoming HTTP header fields

Feb 11, 2016

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177308.html
Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177666.html
Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / nghttp2/nghttp2/compare/v1.7.0...v1.7.1
Release NotesThird Party Advisory
github.com / nghttp2/nghttp2/releases/tag/v1.7.1
Release NotesThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201612-13
Third Party Advisory