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CVE-2016-4165

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-4165 describes a critical vulnerability in the extension manager of Adobe Brackets versions prior to 1.7, allowing attackers to achieve an unspecified but severe impact through invalid input. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network without user interaction, potentially leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no public exploit code available (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, including a SecurityWeek article, though it is not listed on CISA's KEV catalog as actively exploited.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:brackets:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
3.75%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0375 is in the 81st percentile among its peer group of 36,821 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

Vendor Patches (1)

adobevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

helpx.adobe.com / security/products/brackets/apsb16-20.html
Vendor Advisory