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Fencer Intel
high 7.5

CVE-2016-4216 json

Moderate severity vulnerability that affects com.adobe.xmp:xmpcore

published 2016-07-13 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-qv32-7r6p-xhhh , EUVD-2018-0668

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.6%
EPSS 3.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 89%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

XMPCore in Adobe XMP Toolkit for Java before 5.1.3 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via XML data containing an external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

Patch / fix

  • maven com.adobe.xmp:xmpcore 5.1.3
  • libxmpcore-java Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Ubuntu 25.10, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS +2 more 5.1.3-1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-4216

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-4216 updated cvss 7.5

xmpcore: XXE resulting in information disclosure

  • Red Hat BPM Suite 6 xmpcore xmpcore Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6 xmpcore xmpcore
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 xmpcore xmpcore
    affected: no fix available

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.63% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven com.adobe.xmp:xmpcore
<5.1.3
5.1.3

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-611 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.