{
    "id": "CVE-2016-0799",
    "published": "2016-03-03 20:59:03",
    "last_modified": "2026-06-17 00:38:15",
    "cvss_score": "9.8",
    "cvss_severity": "CRITICAL",
    "cvss_version": "3.0",
    "cvss_vector": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
    "cwe": "CWE-119",
    "description": "The fmtstr function in crypto/bio/b_print.c in OpenSSL 1.0.1 before 1.0.1s and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2g improperly calculates string lengths, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (overflow and out-of-bounds read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long string, as demonstrated by a large amount of ASN.1 data, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-2842.",
    "epss_score": "0.32414",
    "epss_percentile": "0.98289",
    "kev": 0,
    "kev_due": null,
    "has_exploit": 0,
    "updated_at": "2026-10-03 18:17:15",
    "priority": {
        "rank": 2,
        "label": "Patch early",
        "why": "EPSS 32.4% — above the 10% action threshold."
    },
    "products": [
        {
            "vendor": "openssl",
            "product": "openssl"
        },
        {
            "vendor": "pulsesecure",
            "product": "client"
        },
        {
            "vendor": "pulsesecure",
            "product": "steel_belted_radius"
        }
    ],
    "kev_detail": null,
    "exploits": [],
    "refs_list": [
        "http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10759",
        "http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178358.html",
        "http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178817.html",
        "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00001.html",
        "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00002.html",
        "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00003.html",
        "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00004.html",
        "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00006.html",
        "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00007.html",
        "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00009.html",
        "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00010.html",
        "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00011.html",
        "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00012.html",
        "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00017.html",
        "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00025.html",
        "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00038.html",
        "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00015.html",
        "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00017.html",
        "http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=145983526810210&w=2",
        "http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=146108058503441&w=2",
        "http://openssl.org/news/secadv/20160301.txt",
        "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0722.html",
        "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0996.html",
        "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2073.html",
        "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2957.html"
    ]
}