How severe is CVE-2016-4972?

This vulnerability has a severity rating of CRITICAL with a CVSS score of 9.8 out of 10.

What type of vulnerability is CVE-2016-4972?

This is classified as CWE-20, which is a common weakness in software security.

CVE-2016-4972

CRITICAL Year: 2016

CVSS v3 Score

9.8

Critical

CVSS v2 Score

7.5

High

Weakness Type

CWE-20

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Vulnerability Description

OpenStack Murano before 1.0.3 (liberty) and 2.x before 2.0.1 (mitaka), Murano-dashboard before 1.0.3 (liberty) and 2.x before 2.0.1 (mitaka), and python-muranoclient before 0.7.3 (liberty) and 0.8.x before 0.8.5 (mitaka) improperly use loaders inherited from yaml.Loader when parsing MuranoPL and UI files, which allows remote attackers to create arbitrary Python objects and execute arbitrary code via crafted extended YAML tags in UI definitions in packages.

CVE-2002-2444

CRITICAL

CVSS:9.8(Critical)

Snoopy before 2.0.0 has a security hole in exec cURL

CWE-202002

CVE-2009-4488

CRITICAL

CVSS:9.8(Critical)

Varnish 2.0.6 writes data to a log file without sanitizing non-printable characters, which might allow remote attackers to modify a window's title, or possibly execute arbitrary commands or overwrite ...

CWE-202009

CVE-2009-4491

CRITICAL

CVSS:9.8(Critical)

thttpd 2.25b0 writes data to a log file without sanitizing non-printable characters, which might allow remote attackers to modify a window's title, or possibly execute arbitrary commands or overwrite ...

CWE-202009

CVE-2010-0748

CRITICAL

CVSS:9.8(Critical)

Transmission before 1.92 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly have other unspecified impact via a large number of tr arguments in a magnet link.

CWE-202010