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CVE-2016-6830

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-6830 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in the "process-execute" and "process-spawn" procedures of CHICKEN Scheme, affecting all versions up to 4.11. This flaw allows user-supplied arguments or environment variables to trigger a buffer overrun during an execve() call. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical), this vulnerability presents a severe risk, as it is network-exploitable with low attack complexity, potentially leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 4.11.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:call-cc:chicken:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.15%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0215 is in the 69th percentile among its peer group of 36,835 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

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

lists.nongnu.org / archive/html/chicken-announce/2016-08/msg00001.html
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/92550
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry