CVE-2016-5331

mediumpriority · track · 25EPSS 0.019 · 80 %ileEURUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.91% (80th) EPSS

CVSS 4.3 · medium

Is it mine?

5 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-26

CRLF injection vulnerability in VMware vCenter Server 6.0 before U2 and ESXi 6.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via unspecified vectors.

cvss

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

6.1

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.04.3mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 2.9

v3.06.1mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 2.7

v2.05.5mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:Nsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

v3.05.6mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-93USprimaryCWE-93US

affected products (5)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
Broadcom Inc. VMware ESXi≤ 6fstec_bduRU
Broadcom Inc. VMware vCenter Server≤ 6fstec_bduRU
vmware esxi= 6.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware vcenter server≤ 6.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:vcenter_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (6)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd fstec_bdu nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2016-08-08modified 2026-06-17

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references (17)

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