7.5

CVE-2016-2216: fedoraproject fedora Improper Input Validation

CVSS: 7.5v3.0HighModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2016-2216DEBIAN-CVE-2016-2216
Published 07-04-2016Last modified 05-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2016-2216 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Improper Input Validation vulnerability in fedoraproject fedora. EPSS estimates a 7.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
31/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
7.26%
0%100%
Low · +0.25 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 2 · Related 1
MGASA-2016-0080SUSE-SU-2019:14246-1

Timeline

  1. 07-04-2016
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 05-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The HTTP header parsing code in Node.js 0.10.x before 0.10.42, 0.11.6 through 0.11.16, 0.12.x before 0.12.10, 4.x before 4.3.0, and 5.x before 5.6.0 allows remote attackers to bypass an HTTP response-splitting protection mechanism via UTF-8 encoded Unicode characters in the HTTP header, as demonstrated by %c4%8d%c4%8a.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

7.26%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

94%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.25 pp

From 7.01% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
7.26%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • nodejs< 4.3.0~dfsg-1
Fedoraproject1 product
Nodejs1 product
  • node.jsEOL0.10.0 | 0.10.1 | 0.10.2 | 0.10.3 | 0.10.4 | 0.10.5 | 0.10.6 | 0.10.7 | 0.10.8 | 0.10.9 | 0.10.10 | 0.10.11 | 0.10.12 | 0.10.13 | 0.10.14 | 0.10.15 | 0.10.16 | 0.10.16-isaacs-manual | 0.10.17 | 0.10.18 | 0.10.19 | 0.10.20 | 0.10.21 | 0.10.22 | 0.10.23 | 0.10.24 | 0.10.25 | 0.10.26 | 0.10.27 | 0.10.28 | 0.10.29 | 0.10.30 | 0.10.31 | 0.10.32 | 0.10.33 | 0.10.34 | 0.10.35 | 0.10.36 | 0.10.37 | 0.10.38 | 0.10.39 | 0.10.40 | 0.10.41 | 0.11.6 | 0.11.7 | 0.11.8 | 0.11.9 | 0.11.10 | 0.11.11 | 0.11.12 | 0.11.13 | 0.11.14 | 0.11.15 | 0.11.16 | 0.12.0 | 0.12.1 | 0.12.2 | 0.12.3 | 0.12.4 | 0.12.5 | 0.12.6 | 0.12.7 | 0.12.8 | 0.12.9 | 4.0.0 | 4.1.0 | 4.1.1 | 4.1.2 | 4.2.0 | 4.2.1 | 4.2.2 | 4.2.3 | 4.2.4 | 4.2.5 | 4.2.6 | 5.0.0 | 5.1.0 | 5.1.1 | 5.2.0 | 5.3.0 | 5.4.0 | 5.4.1 | 5.5.0
Ubuntu1 product
  • nodejsAll versions (No fix recorded)

4 vendors · 4 products

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