What is CVE-2016-3628?

CVE-2016-3628 is a high-severity vulnerability in Tibco Enterprise Message Service, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2016-04-20.

How severe is CVE-2016-3628?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Tibco Enterprise Message Service

CVE-2016-3628

Buffer overflow in tibemsd in the server in TIBCO Enterprise Message Service (EMS) before 8.3.0 and EMS Appliance before 2.4.0 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted inbound data.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2016-04-20 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.022 (81.5th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 82nd percentile — 81.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.022 · newest: 0.022 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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

References

www.tibco.com/mk/advisory.jsp (Vendor Advisory)
www.tibco.com/assets/blt8a2d9978616c21fe/2016-001-advisory.txt (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-3628?: CVE-2016-3628 is a high-severity vulnerability in Tibco Enterprise Message Service, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2016-04-20.
How severe is CVE-2016-3628?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.