Is CVE-2016-2052 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2016-2052 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2016-2052?

CVE-2016-2052 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.6 (HIGH).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2016-2052?

CVE-2016-2052 has an EPSS score of 0.96% (57th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2016-2052?

Upgrade harfbuzz on debian 11 to 1.2.6-1 or later. Fixes are available for 5 affected products.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2016-2052

HIGH

7.6

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in HarfBuzz before 1.0.6, as used in Google Chrome before 48.0.2564.82, allow attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have other impact via crafted data, as demonstrated by a buffer over-read resulting from an inverted length check in hb-ot-font.cc, a different issue than CVE-2015-8947.

How to fix

Remediation Available

harfbuzzDebian

Fixed in:1.2.6-1CVE-2016-2052

harfbuzzUbuntu

Fixed in:0.9.27-1ubuntu1.1USN-3067-1

Fixed in:1.0.1-1ubuntu0.1USN-3067-1

libharfbuzz0bUbuntu

Fixed in:0.9.27-1ubuntu1.1USN-3067-1

Fixed in:1.0.1-1ubuntu0.1USN-3067-1

liboxideqtcore0Ubuntu

Fixed in:1.12.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1USN-2877-1

oxide-qtUbuntu

Fixed in:1.12.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1USN-2877-1

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 InteractionRequired

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityLow

IntegrityLow

AvailabilityHigh

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

Exploit Intelligence

0.96%probability of exploitation in 30 days

57thpercentile

Moderate risk: more likely to be exploited than 57% of all known CVEs.

References

Other references12

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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 2026-05-06.