CVE-2016-2781

lowpriority · track · 26EPSS 0.004 · 36 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.43% (36th) EPSS

CVSS 2.1 · low

Is it mine?

2 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-23

chroot in GNU coreutils, when used with --userspec, allows local users to escape to the parent session via a crafted TIOCSTI ioctl call, which pushes characters to the terminal's input buffer.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

6.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–medium · 2.1–6.5

v2.02.1lowAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 2.9

v3.06.5mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2 · impact 4

v3.14.6mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:Nsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.14.6mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:Nsecondaryexploitability 1.5 · impact 2.7

v3.14.2mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Trackcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-20USprimary

affected products (2)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
gnu coreutilsall versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:a:gnu:coreutils:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

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sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2017-02-07modified 2026-06-17

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references (9)

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