CVE-2016-4980 json
A password generation weakness exists in xquest through 2016-06-13.
published 2019-11-27 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-5948
- cvss
- 2.5
- version 3.1, NVD
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.3%
- EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 25%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
A password generation weakness exists in xquest through 2016-06-13.
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-2016-4980 updated cvss 2.8
xguest insecure password creation
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 xguest Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 xguestaffected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
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
0.32% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 25% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).
CVSS scores
| assigned by | version | score | vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVD | 3.1 | 2.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
| NVD | 2.0 | 1.9 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
Affected products
- xguest xguest
Classification
- Weakness
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- CWE-330 Use of Insufficiently Random Values
References
- bugzilla.redhat.com /show_bug.cgi?id=1346016
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bugzilla.redhat.com
/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-4980
issue-tracking, third-party-advisory
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access.redhat.com
/security/cve/cve-2016-4980
third-party-advisory
- lists.fedoraproject.org /archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AVW2QJFNZUZYBN4M4YUE7S2NZBWWMGES/
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2016-4980
- NVD CVE-2016-4980
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