CVE-2016-4483

mediumpriority · track · 32EPSS 0.060 · 93 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

6.00% (93rd) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

Is it mine?

19 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

The xmlBufAttrSerializeTxtContent function in xmlsave.c in libxml2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a non-UTF-8 attribute value, related to serialization. NOTE: this vulnerability may be a duplicate of CVE-2016-3627.

cvss

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

7.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5–7.5

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6

v3.16.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-502USprimary

affected products (19)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Debian Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:-
Dell NetWorker <19.11.0.2all versionscert_bundDE
Dell NetWorker <19.11.0.5all versionscert_bundDE
Dell NetWorker <19.13all versionscert_bundDE
Dell NetWorker Server <19.10.0.6all versionscert_bundDE
Dell NetWorker Server <19.11.0.2all versionscert_bundDE
Open Source libxml2all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:xmlsoft:libxml2:-
Red Hat Enterprise Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:-
SUSE Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:suse:suse_linux:-
Ubuntu Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:-
Dell Networker≤ Server <19.10.0.6cert_bundDE
Dell Networker≤ Server <19.11.0.2cert_bundDE
Dell Networker< 19.11.0.2cert_bundDE
Dell Networker< 19.11.0.5cert_bundDE
Dell Networker< 19.13cert_bundDE
n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
debian debian linux= 8.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
oracle solaris= 11.3nvdUScpe:2.3:o:oracle:solaris:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
xmlsoft libxml2< 2.9.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxml2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2023-1614Tenable Security Nessus Network Monitor: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2023-06-29csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer, authentisierter oder lokaler Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Tenable Security Nessus Network Monitor ausnutzen, um beliebigen Code auszuführen, vertrauliche Informationen offenzulegen, einen Denial-of-Service-Zustand auszulösen und Daten zu manipulieren.
WID-SEC-W-2024-3385libxml2: Schwachstelle ermöglicht Denial of Service oder Offenlegung von InformationenDeutsch2016-05-03csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle in libxml2 ausnutzen, um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen oder um Informationen offenzulegen.

also known as (3)

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sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd cert_bund nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2017-04-11modified 2026-06-17

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references (44)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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