What is CVE-2016-1358?

CVE-2016-1358 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco Prime Infrastructure, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2016-03-03.

How severe is CVE-2016-1358?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Cisco Prime Infrastructure

CVE-2016-1358

Cisco Prime Infrastructure 2.2, 3.0, and 3.1(0.0) allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files or cause a denial of service via an XML document containing an external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue, aka Bug ID CSCuw81497.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2016-03-03 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.013 (69.1th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 69th percentile — 69.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.013 · newest: 0.013 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Cisco Prime Infrastructure — versions 2.2, 3.0, 3.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

www.securitytracker.com/id/1035181 (vdb-entry)
tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160302… (vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-1358?: CVE-2016-1358 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Cisco Prime Infrastructure, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2016-03-03.
How severe is CVE-2016-1358?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.