What is CVE-2016-10160?

CVE-2016-10160 is a critical-severity vulnerability in NetApp Clustered Data Ontap, classified under Off-by-one Error. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2017-01-24.

How severe is CVE-2016-10160?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Is CVE-2016-10160 known to be exploited?

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

Vulnerability in NetApp Clustered Data Ontap

CVE-2016-10160

Off-by-one error in the phar_parse_pharfile function in ext/phar/phar.c in PHP before 5.6.30 and 7.0.x before 7.0.15 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PHAR archive with an alias mismatch.

Published 2017-01-24 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.074 (94.2th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 94th percentile — 94.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.073 · newest: 0.074 · change: +0.001

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-193 — Off-by-one Error

Public proof-of-concept exploits

DanielDominguezBender/OpenVas-Vulnerability-Analysis

References

bugs.php.net/bug.php (Patch, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1296 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
php.net/ChangeLog-5.php (Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)
security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180112-0001/ (Third Party Advisory)
github.com/php/php-src/commit/b28b8b2fee6dfa6fcd13305c581bb835689ac3be (Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-04 (Third Party Advisory)
www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3783 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-29 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
php.net/ChangeLog-7.php (Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)
www.securitytracker.com/id/1037659 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, Broken Link)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-10160?: CVE-2016-10160 is a critical-severity vulnerability in NetApp Clustered Data Ontap, classified under Off-by-one Error. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2017-01-24.
How severe is CVE-2016-10160?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2016-10160 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.