THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2016-1522
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2016-1522

Fedora vulnerability

CVSS
8.8
EPSS
8.3%
EPSS pct
94th
Exploited
No known
Code.cpp in Libgraphite in Graphite 2 1.2.4, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.6.1, does not consider recursive load calls during a size check, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Graphite smart font.
Affected vendor
Fedoraproject
Affected product
Fedora
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds
Published
2016-02-13

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 8.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2016-1522

  • Confirm whether Fedoraproject Fedora is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2016-1522.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

How ThreatPort helps with CVE-2016-1522

ThreatPort's external attack surface scanner checks your internet-facing assets — agentlessly, from the outside in — for the exposed services and versions that CVE-2016-1522 affects, then prioritises the finding by real risk using CISA KEV and FIRST.org EPSS.

Run a free external exposure scan

Are you exposed to CVE-2016-1522?

Run an instant, non-intrusive external scan to check your attack surface for CVE-2016-1522.

Start free scan

No credit card. Agentless.

Related vulnerabilities

HIGH
CVE-2026-48172
LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
HIGH
CVE-2026-9082
Drupal Core SQL Injection Vulnerability
HIGH
CVE-2025-34291
Langflow Origin Validation Error Vulnerability