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CVE-2016-1569

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-1569 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in FireBird 2.5.5, allowing remote authenticated users to crash the daemon by invoking the gbak utility with an invalid parameter via the service manager. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) has a low attack complexity and requires authentication, but can lead to a complete loss of availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.5.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:firebirdsql:firebird:2.5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.30%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
81.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0230 is in the 93rd percentile among its peer group of 21,957 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 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 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177119.html
sourceforge.net / p/firebird/code/62783
tracker.firebirdsql.org / browse/CORE-5068
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/01/10/2
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/01/10/3
Exploit