CVE-2016-5537
5.7
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.12%
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in the NetBeans component in Oracle Fusion Middleware 8.1 allows local users to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors. NOTE: the previous information is from the October 2016 CPU. Oracle has not commented on third-party claims that this issue is a directory traversal vulnerability which allows local users with certain permissions to write to arbitrary files and consequently gain privileges via a .. (dot dot) in a archive entry in a ZIP file imported as a project.
How to fix CVE-2016-5537
To remediate CVE-2016-5537, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 10.0-1 or later
Is CVE-2016-5537 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 10.0-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.7 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L |