CVE-2016-5537

medium

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the NetBeans component in Oracle Fusion Middleware 8.1 allows local users to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors. NOTE: the previous information is from the October 2016 CPU. Oracle has not commented on third-party claims that this issue is a directory traversal vulnerability which allows local users with certain permissions to write to arbitrary files and consequently gain privileges via a .. (dot dot) in a archive entry in a ZIP file imported as a project.

References

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037051

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93686

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/539615/100/0/threaded

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2016-2881722.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-10-25

Updated: 2025-04-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.7

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0015