How severe is CVE-2016-6178?

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

What type of vulnerability is CVE-2016-6178?

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

CVE-2016-6178

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

Huawei NE40E and CX600 devices with software before V800R007SPH017; PTN 6900-2-M8 devices with software before V800R007SPH019; NE5000E devices with software before V800R006SPH018; and CloudEngine devices 12800 with software before V100R003SPH010 and V100R005 before V100R005SPH006 allow remote attackers with control plane access to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code via a crafted packet.

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