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Case File

CVE-2016-4478

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 2.27% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2016-06-13 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

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Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

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CVE
CVE-2016-4478
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
2.27%

Original NVD Description

Buffer overflow in the xmlrpc_char_encode function in modules/transport/xmlrpc/xmlrpclib.c in Atheme before 7.2.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via vectors related to XMLRPC response encoding.