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CVE-2016-4528

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-4528 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in Advantech WebAccess versions prior to 8.1_20160519. This flaw allows a local attacker to trigger a denial of service by providing a specially crafted DLL file. Rated Medium with a CVSS score of 5.0, exploitation requires local access and user interaction, but can lead to high availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there public exploits available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, though it has received some community and media attention.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 8.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:advantech:webaccess:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.3
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.68%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
48.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0067 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 381 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

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

ics-cert.us-cert.gov / advisories/ICSA-16-173-01
Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource