CVE-2016-5517

FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-5517 is an unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle Applications DBA component, specifically affecting Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1.3 via AD Utilities. This medium-severity flaw, with a CVSS v3 score of 5.5, allows a local attacker with low privileges to compromise data confidentiality. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		12.1.3CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:oracle:applications_dba:12.1.3:::::::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Exploitability Score

1.8

Impact Score

3.6

CvssVersion

3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

0.35%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

27.2%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0035 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 15,940 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

oraclepatch availablevia nvd_reference

View patch

References

oracle.com / technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2016-2881722.html

PatchVendor Advisory

securityfocus.com / bid/93769

securitytracker.com / id/1037038