THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2016-9446
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2016-9446

Gstreamer vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
3.6%
EPSS pct
88th
Exploited
No known
The vmnc decoder in the gstreamer does not initialize the render canvas, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information as demonstrated by thumbnailing a simple 1 frame vmnc movie that does not draw to the allocated render canvas.
Affected vendor
Gstreamer
Affected product
Gstreamer
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-665 — Improper Initialization
Published
2017-01-23

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 3.6% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

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  • Confirm whether Gstreamer Gstreamer is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
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