Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2016-1559

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-1559 is a high-severity information disclosure vulnerability affecting D-Link DAP-1353, DAP-2553, and DAP-3520 access points. It allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to retrieve sensitive information, including wireless passwords and administrative credentials, via SNMP due to improper access control (CWE-200). The CVSSv3 score of 8.1 indicates a high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, with high attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.15CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:d-link:dap-1353_h\/w_b1_firmware:3.15:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.31CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:d-link:dap-2553_h\/w_a1_firmware:1.31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.16CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:d-link:dap-3520_h\/w_a1_firmware:1.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.1HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.30%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0330 is in the 46th percentile among its peer group of 8,918 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 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

packetstormsecurity.com / files/135956/D-Link-Netgear-FIRMADYNE-Command-Injection-Buffer-Overflow.html
Broken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2016/Feb/112
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
dlink.com / mk/mk/support/support-news/2016/march/16/firmadyne-cve_2016_1558-cve_2016_1559
PatchVendor Advisory