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CVE-2016-5301

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-5301 is a denial-of-service vulnerability in libtorrent versions prior to 1.1.1, affecting products like arvidn libtorrent and openSUSE. An unauthenticated remote attacker can crash the application by sending a crafted HTTP response or UPnP broadcast, resulting in high availability impact. Despite a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
42.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:arvidn:libtorrent:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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:N/I:N/A:H

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.95%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0195 is in the 62nd percentile among its peer group of 51,455 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00079.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00103.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00043.html
github.com / arvidn/libtorrent/issues/780
github.com / arvidn/libtorrent/pull/782/files
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/06/04/9
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/06/05/1
securityfocus.com / bid/91498