Is CVE-2016-7053 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2016-7053 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2016-7053?

CVE-2016-7053 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.5 (HIGH).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2016-7053?

CVE-2016-7053 has an EPSS score of 21.68% (97th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2016-7053?

Upgrade openssl on debian 11 to 1.1.0c-1 or later.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2016-7053

HIGHEPSS 97th pctl

7.5

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

In OpenSSL 1.1.0 before 1.1.0c, applications parsing invalid CMS structures can crash with a NULL pointer dereference. This is caused by a bug in the handling of the ASN.1 CHOICE type in OpenSSL 1.1.0 which can result in a NULL value being passed to the structure callback if an attempt is made to free certain invalid encodings. Only CHOICE structures using a callback which do not handle NULL value are affected.

CWE-476NULL Pointer Dereference

How to fix

Remediation Available

opensslDebian

Fixed in:1.1.0c-1CVE-2016-7053

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CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredNone

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityNone

IntegrityNone

AvailabilityHigh

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

Exploit Intelligence

21.68%probability of exploitation in 30 days

97thpercentile

Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 97% of all known CVEs.

References

Vendor Advisory1

openssl.org

Third-Party Advisory1

securityfocus.com

Other references2

Related Vulnerabilities

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CVE-2023-21758	High	7.5	92%	-	Fix
CVE-2023-21547	High	7.5	88%	-	Fix
CVE-2014-3470	Medium	4.3	86%	-	Fix
CVE-2021-44224	High	8.2	82%	-	Fix
CVE-2016-0742	High	7.5	82%	-	Fix
CVE-2009-1386	Medium	5.0	80%	-	Fix

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