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CVE-2016-4901

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-4901 is an untrusted search path vulnerability affecting all versions of the e-Tax Software installer from the national_tax_agency. This flaw allows remote attackers to elevate privileges by tricking the installer into loading a malicious DLL from an unspecified directory. With a CVSS v3 score of 7.8 (High), successful exploitation could lead to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, requiring user interaction but with low attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:national_tax_agency:e-tax:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.53%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
72.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0153 is in the 71st percentile among its peer group of 11,616 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

jvndb.jvn.jp / jvndb/JVNDB-2016-000207
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
jvn.jp / en/jp/JVN63012325/index.html
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
e-tax.nta.go.jp / topics/topics_281014.htm
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/93606
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry