What is CVE-2016-0215?

CVE-2016-0215 is a medium-severity vulnerability in HP Hp-Ux, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-01-16.

How severe is CVE-2016-0215?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2016-0215 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Improper input validation in HP Hp-Ux

CVE-2016-0215

IBM DB2 9.7, 10.1 before FP6, and 10.5 before FP8 on AIX, Linux, HP, Solaris and Windows allow remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a SELECT statement with a subquery containing the AVG OLAP function on an Oracle compatible database.

Vulnerability class: Drupalgeddon 2 (CVE-2018-7600)

Published 2018-01-16 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.016 (74.4th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 74th percentile — 74.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.016 · newest: 0.016 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation

Public proof-of-concept exploits

midnightslacker/cveWatcher

References

www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss (Patch, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-0215?: CVE-2016-0215 is a medium-severity vulnerability in HP Hp-Ux, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-01-16.
How severe is CVE-2016-0215?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2016-0215 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.