What is CVE-2016-5584?

CVE-2016-5584 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mariadb. CVSS score: 4.4/10. Published 2016-10-25.

How severe is CVE-2016-5584?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.4 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Mariadb

CVE-2016-5584

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle MySQL 5.5.52 and earlier, 5.6.33 and earlier, and 5.7.15 and earlier allows remote administrators to affect confidentiality via vectors related to Server: Security: Encryption.

Published 2016-10-25 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.015 (73.2th percentile), scored 2026-10-01.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 73rd percentile — 73.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.015 · newest: 0.015 · change: 0.000

Affected products

References

security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-01 (vendor-advisory, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory)
www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2016-2881722.html (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3706 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/93735 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
www.securitytracker.com/id/1037050 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, Broken Link)
mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-10028-release-notes/ (Third Party Advisory, Release Notes)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-5584?: CVE-2016-5584 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mariadb. CVSS score: 4.4/10. Published 2016-10-25.
How severe is CVE-2016-5584?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.4 out of 10.