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CVE-2016-9885

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-9885 describes an unauthenticated and publicly accessible gfsh endpoint in Pivotal GemFire for PCF versions 1.6.x prior to 1.6.5 and 1.7.x prior to 1.7.1. This critical vulnerability (CVSS 9.8) allows an attacker to execute arbitrary commands, leading to denial of service, data confidentiality loss, privilege escalation, or eavesdropping due to unencrypted communications between the gorouter and GemFire clusters. While the vulnerability is severe and easily exploitable over the network with no user interaction, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.6.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pivotal_software:gemfire_for_pivotal_cloud_foundry:1.6.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pivotal_software:gemfire_for_pivotal_cloud_foundry:1.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pivotal_software:gemfire_for_pivotal_cloud_foundry:1.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pivotal_software:gemfire_for_pivotal_cloud_foundry:1.6.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pivotal_software:gemfire_for_pivotal_cloud_foundry:1.6.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.54%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
72.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0154 is in the 59th percentile among its peer group of 36,821 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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

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

pivotal.io / security/cve-2016-9885
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/95270