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CVE-2016-7420

MEDIUM · CVSS 5.9 EPSS 2.29% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2016-09-16 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2016-7420
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.9
EPSS
2.29%

Original NVD Description

Crypto++ (aka cryptopp) through 5.6.4 does not document the requirement for a compile-time NDEBUG definition disabling the many assert calls that are unintended in production use, which might allow context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information by leveraging access to process memory after an assertion failure, as demonstrated by reading a core dump.