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VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2016-9332

An attacker could provide unexpected values and cause the program to crash or excessive consumption of resources could result in a denial-of-service condition.

EXPLOITHIGH 7.5EPSS 8.24%

Does this matter?

A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB and the impact is high, while EPSS rates exploitation at 8.2%. Anyone can run this; patch or mitigate before the next change window and check exposed instances for signs of use.

Description

An issue was discovered in Moxa SoftCMS versions prior to Version 1.6. Moxa SoftCMS Webserver does not properly validate input. An attacker could provide unexpected values and cause the program to crash or excessive consumption of resources could result in a denial-of-service condition.

CVSS 3.0
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
8.24% probability · 95th percentile
Public exploits
1 in Exploit-DB · first 18 November 2016
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-399
Affected
moxa/softcms
Source
ics-cert@hq.dhs.gov
EPSS trend
0%5%10%21 September 2026: 6.40%22 September 2026: 8.24%27 October 2026: 8.24%21 September 202627 October 2026

EPSS moved from 6.4% on 21 September 2026 to 8.2% on 27 October 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.

Public exploits (1)

Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.

EDB-IDTitleTypePublishedVerified
EDB-40779source ↗Moxa SoftCMS 1.5 - Denial of Service (PoC)windows · Zhou Yudos18 November 2016no

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.