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cvelistMitreCVELIST:CVE-2016-7420
HistorySep 16, 2016 - 12:00 a.m.

CVE-2016-7420

2016-09-1600:00:00
mitre
www.cve.org

5.7 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.003 Low

EPSS

Percentile

68.0%

Crypto++ (aka cryptopp) through 5.6.4 does not document the requirement for a compile-time NDEBUG definition disabling the many assert calls that are unintended in production use, which might allow context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information by leveraging access to process memory after an assertion failure, as demonstrated by reading a core dump.

5.7 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.003 Low

EPSS

Percentile

68.0%