CVE-2016-10040

Exp

Stack-based buffer overflow in QXmlSimpleReader in Qt 4.8.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a xml file with multiple nested open tags.

Published: 2017-03-07 Last update: 2026-05-13 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2016-10040 is rated High Exploit Risk (60.9/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.62%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2016-10040

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2016-10040

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-02-26 1.07% 0.62% -0.45%
2 2026-02-01 0.82% 1.07% +0.25%
3 2025-10-21 — 0.82% —

Full EPSS history (14 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2016-10040

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.5 3.0 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:L)
They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
 1.8 3.6 [email protected]
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2016-10040

OS Trackers for CVE-2016-10040

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2016-10040 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (qtbase-opensource-src), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-10040
redhat low — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-10040
suse low CVE-2016-10040 severity low: SUSE including 58 source package names (libQtWebKit-devel-4.8.7+2.3.4-4.5.1, libQtWebKit-devel-4.8.7+2.3.4-4.7.2, …), 177 product×package rows across 15 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP4, … (15 product lines)): Fixed 177. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-10040/
ubuntu low CVE-2016-10040 low priority: Ubuntu including 2 source packages (qt4-x11, qtbase-opensource-src), 46 status rows across 23 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, precise, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 22, DNE 14, ignored 7, needed 1, needs-triage 1, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10040

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2016-10040

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
qt qxmlsimplereader 4.8.5 cpe:2.3:a:qt:qxmlsimplereader:4.8.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2016-10040

URL Tags
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/24/2 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/14/4 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95113 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1409597 Exploit Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
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