CVE-2016-1569 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

FireBird 2.5.5 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) by using service manager to invoke the gbak utility with an invalid parameter.

Published: 2016-01-13

Score: 6.5 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:firebirdsql:firebird:2.5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2016-2664	FireBird 2.5.5 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) by using service manager to invoke the gbak utility with an invalid parameter.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication Single

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00758.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177119.html
http://sourceforge.net/p/firebird/code/62783/
http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-5068
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/10/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/10/3

History

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Firebirdsql Firebird

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: debian

Published: 2016-01-13T15:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T23:02:11.750Z

Reserved: 2016-01-10T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-1569

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-01-13T15:59:03.803

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2016-1569

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-20

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