Is CVE-2016-10253 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2016-10253 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2016-10253?

CVE-2016-10253 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (CRITICAL).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2016-10253?

CVE-2016-10253 has an EPSS score of 1.48% (71th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2016-10253?

Upgrade erlang on debian 11 to 1:19.2.1+dfsg-2 or later. Fixes are available for 2 affected products.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2016-10253

CRITICALEPSS 71th pctl

9.8

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

An issue was discovered in Erlang/OTP 18.x. Erlang's generation of compiled regular expressions is vulnerable to a heap overflow. Regular expressions using a malformed extpattern can indirectly specify an offset that is used as an array index. This ordinal permits arbitrary regions within the erts_alloc arena to be both read and written to.

CWE-119Buffer Overflow

How to fix

Remediation Available

erlangDebian

Fixed in:1:19.2.1+dfsg-2CVE-2016-10253

erlangUbuntu

Fixed in:1:16.b.3-dfsg-1ubuntu2.2USN-3571-1

Fixed in:1:18.3-dfsg-1ubuntu3.1USN-3571-1

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredNone

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh

IntegrityHigh

AvailabilityHigh

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploit Intelligence

1.48%probability of exploitation in 30 days

71stpercentile

Elevated risk: more likely to be exploited than 71% of all known CVEs.

References

Third-Party Advisory2

Related Vulnerabilities

Other CWE-119 (Buffer Overflow) vulnerabilities, ordered by exploit likelihood. View all

CVE	Severity	CVSS	EPSS	Exploited	Fix
CVE-2023-4966	Critical	9.4	100%	KEV + Ransom	Fix
CVE-2017-11882	High	7.8	100%	KEV + Ransom	-
CVE-2020-0796	Critical	10.0	100%	KEV + Ransom	-
CVE-2008-4250	Critical	9.8	99%	KEV	-
CVE-2017-15944	Critical	9.8	98%	KEV	Fix
CVE-2015-0014	High	10.0	97%	-	-

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2026-05-13.