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CVE-2016-4536

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-4536 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting OpenAFS client versions prior to 1.6.17. It involves improper initialization of specific data structures, potentially allowing remote attackers to expose sensitive memory information by intercepting RPC call traffic. The attack requires no user interaction or privileges, but its impact is limited to confidentiality. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.6.16CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openafs:openafs:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.3MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.31%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
67.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0131 is in the 47th percentile among its peer group of 23,684 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 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.openafs.org / pipermail/openafs-announce/2016/000496.html
Vendor Advisory
openafs.org / dl/openafs/1.6.17/RELNOTES-1.6.17
Vendor Advisory
openafs.org / pages/security/OPENAFS-SA-2016-002.txt
Vendor Advisory