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CVE-2016-2243

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-2243 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Sure Start feature on HP Commercial PCs from 2015, also affecting some Samsung and Zyxel products. With a CVSS score of 7.9 (HIGH), this flaw allows a local attacker with administrative privileges to cause a BIOS recovery failure, leading to a significant impact on system availability and integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.08CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:hp:700_series_firmware:1.08:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.09CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:hp:800_series_firmware:2.09:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:hp:z240_firmware:1.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.09CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:hp:700_series_firmware:2.09:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:hp:z238_firmware:1.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.9HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.5
Impact Score
5.8
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.42%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
34.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0042 is in the 72nd percentile among its peer group of 358 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

h20565.www2.hp.com / hpsc/doc/public/display
Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id/1035193