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CVE-2016-5686

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-5686 is a critical vulnerability affecting Johnson & Johnson Animas OneTouch Ping insulin pumps and their firmware. It allows remote attackers to bypass authentication through mishandled acknowledgements in a custom communication protocol. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over a network with no user interaction, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog and lacking public exploit code, it has garnered significant media attention and community discussion, indicating potential for future exploitation.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:animas:onetouch_ping_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
4.52%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0452 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 36,833 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

community.rapid7.com / community/infosec/blog/2016/10/04/r7-2016-07-multiple-vulnerabilities-in-animas-onetouch-ping-insulin-pump
MitigationTechnical DescriptionThird Party Advisory
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/884840
Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/BLUU-A9SQRS
Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
securityfocus.com / bid/93351