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-2016-1585

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-1585 describes a critical vulnerability in all versions of Canonical AppArmor where mount rules are inadvertently broadened during compilation. This flaw, with a CVSS v3.1 score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), allows for unauthenticated network-based attacks with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2.13.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:canonical:apparmor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 3.0.0, < 3.0.12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:canonical:apparmor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 3.1.0, < 3.1.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:canonical:apparmor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

3.9LOW

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
0.5
Impact Score
3.4
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.03%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
60.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0103 is in the 45th percentile among its peer group of 36,821 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 16860-16820Fixed in: 2.13-11
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 16861-16823Fixed in: 2.13-16
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cm1 apparmor 2.13-11 on CBL Mariner 1.0Fixed in: 2.13-11
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 apparmor 2.13-16 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 2.13-16

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2019-Apr/CVE-2016-1585Critical

AppArmor mount rules grant excessive permissions

Apr 9, 2019

References

bugs.launchpad.net / apparmor/+bug/1597017
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
lists.apache.org / thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E
Third Party Advisory