What is CVE-2016-9645?

CVE-2016-9645 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ikiwiki, classified under Improper Access Control. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-04-10.

How severe is CVE-2016-9645?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Ikiwiki

CVE-2016-9645

The fix for ikiwiki for CVE-2016-10026 was incomplete resulting in editing restriction bypass for git revert when using git versions older than 2.8.0. This has been fixed in 3.20161229.

Published 2018-04-10 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.009 (58.5th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 58th percentile — 58.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.009 · newest: 0.009 · change: -0.000

Affected products

Ikiwiki — versions 3.20161229 and prior

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-284 — Improper Access Control

References

security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9645 (Third Party Advisory)
ikiwiki.info/security/ (Vendor Advisory)
marc.info/ (Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-9645?: CVE-2016-9645 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ikiwiki, classified under Improper Access Control. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-04-10.
How severe is CVE-2016-9645?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.