{"id":"CVE-2016-10708","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2016-10708","generatedAt":"2026-11-05T04:10:46.454Z","title":"sshd in OpenSSH before 7.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via an out-of-sequence NEWKEYS message, as demonstrated by Honggfuzz, related to kex.c and packet.c.","description":"sshd in OpenSSH before 7.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via an out-of-sequence NEWKEYS message, as demonstrated by Honggfuzz, related to kex.c and packet.c.","published":"2018-01-21T22:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T00:40:12.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-476"],"affected":["openbsd/openssh","debian/debian linux","canonical/ubuntu linux","netapp/cloud backup","netapp/data ontap","netapp/data ontap edge","netapp/oncommand unified manager","netapp/service processor","netapp/storagegrid","netapp/storagegrid webscale","netapp/clustered data ontap","netapp/vasa provider"],"epss":{"score":0.15716,"percentile":0.96872,"date":"2026-11-04","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 15.7%, higher than 97% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://blog.swiecki.net/2018/01/fuzzing-tcp-servers.html","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102780","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://anongit.mindrot.org/openssh.git/commit/?id=28652bca29046f62c7045e933e6b931de1d16737","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-676336.pdf","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10284","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00031.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00010.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180423-0003/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K32485746?utm_source=f5support&amp%3Butm_medium=RSS","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/3809-1/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html","tags":["Release Notes","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://blog.swiecki.net/2018/01/fuzzing-tcp-servers.html","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102780","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://anongit.mindrot.org/openssh.git/commit/?id=28652bca29046f62c7045e933e6b931de1d16737","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-676336.pdf","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10284","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00031.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00010.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180423-0003/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K32485746?utm_source=f5support&amp%3Butm_medium=RSS","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/3809-1/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html","tags":["Release Notes","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10708","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}