What is CVE-2016-7151?

CVE-2016-7151 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Capstone-Engine Capstone, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2019-05-15.

How severe is CVE-2016-7151?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Out-of-bounds Read in Capstone-Engine Capstone

CVE-2016-7151

Capstone 3.0.4 has an out-of-bounds vulnerability (SEGV caused by a read memory access) in X86_insn_reg_intel in arch/X86/X86Mapping.c.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2019-05-15 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.011 (64.6th percentile), scored 2026-10-24.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 65th percentile — 64.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.010 · newest: 0.011 · change: +0.001

Affected products

Capstone-Engine Capstone — versions 3.0.4

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read

References

github.com/aquynh/capstone/pull/725 (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
github.com/aquynh/capstone/commit/87a25bb543c8e4c09b48d4b4a6c7db31ce58df06 (Patch, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-7151?: CVE-2016-7151 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Capstone-Engine Capstone, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2019-05-15.
How severe is CVE-2016-7151?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.