What is CVE-2016-1578?

CVE-2016-1578 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Oxide Project. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2016-05-13.

How severe is CVE-2016-1578?

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

Vulnerability in Oxide Project

CVE-2016-1578

Use-after-free vulnerability in Oxide allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, related to responding synchronously to permission requests.

Published 2016-05-13 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.030 (87.0th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 87th percentile — 87.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.030 · newest: 0.030 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Oxide Project
Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 14.04, 15.10, 16.04

References

www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2955-1 (vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-1578?: CVE-2016-1578 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Oxide Project. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2016-05-13.
How severe is CVE-2016-1578?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.