What is CVE-2016-8782?

CVE-2016-8782 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Huawei Cloudengine 12800, classified under CWE-399. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2018-03-09.

How severe is CVE-2016-8782?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Huawei Cloudengine 12800

CVE-2016-8782

Huawei CloudEngine 12800 V100R003C00, V100R003C10, V100R005C00, V100R005C10, V100R006C00 have a memory leak vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker may send specific Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) packets to the devices repeatedly. Due to improper validation of some specific fields of the packet, the LDP processing module does not release the memory, resulting in memory leak.

Published 2018-03-09 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.011 (64.9th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 65th percentile — 64.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.011 · newest: 0.011 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Huawei Cloudengine 12800
Huawei Cloudengine 12800 Firmware — versions v100r003c00, v100r003c10, v100r005c00
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Cloudengine 12800 — versions CloudEngine 12800 V100R003C00, V100R003C10, V100R005C00, V100R005C10, V100R006C00

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-399

References

www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20161214-01-ldp-en (Vendor Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/94941 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-8782?: CVE-2016-8782 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Huawei Cloudengine 12800, classified under CWE-399. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2018-03-09.
How severe is CVE-2016-8782?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.