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CVE-2016-3645

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-3645 describes a critical integer overflow vulnerability within the TNEF unpacker of Symantec's AntiVirus Decomposer engine, impacting numerous Symantec products including Endpoint Protection, Mail Security, and various Norton consumer products. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to achieve high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability via crafted TNEF data, as indicated by its CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL). While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, exploit code for this vulnerability is publicly available on ExploitDB, and it has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, suggesting a high potential for exploitation.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 13.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:norton_security:*:*:*:*:*:macos:*:*
>= 7.0.0, <= 7.0.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:protection_engine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 7.5.0, <= 7.5.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:protection_engine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:protection_engine:7.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 2.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:advanced_threat_protection:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.8CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
24.61%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-40035 · Jun 29, 2016
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.2461 is in the 94th percentile among its peer group of 36,829 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

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

exploit-db.com / exploits/40035
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
symantec.com / security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/91439
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1036198
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1036199
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry