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CVE-2016-9598

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-9598 describes an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in libxml2, specifically affecting Red Hat JBoss Core Services, which can lead to a denial of service (application crash) when processing a crafted XML document. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) requires user interaction to trigger, as an attacker must entice a victim to open the malicious XML file. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:jboss_core_services:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 2.9.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.23%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
65.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0123 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 26,219 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 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Text-Only JBCSFixed in: httpd
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-9598Moderate

libxml2: out-of-bounds read (unfixed CVE-2016-4483 in JBCS)

May 3, 2016

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:2486
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory