What is CVE-2016-9868?

CVE-2016-9868 is a medium-severity vulnerability in EMC Scaleio, classified under CWE-254. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-01-06.

How severe is CVE-2016-9868?

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

Vulnerability in EMC Scaleio

CVE-2016-9868

An issue was discovered in EMC ScaleIO versions before 2.0.1.1. A low-privileged local attacker may cause a denial-of-service by generating a kernel panic in the SCINI driver using IOCTL calls which may render the ScaleIO Data Client (SDC) server unavailable until the next reboot.

Published 2017-01-06 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

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

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (21.1th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 21st percentile — 21.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000

Affected products

EMC Scaleio
EMC Scaleio Versions Before 2.0.1.1 — versions EMC ScaleIO versions before 2.0.1.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-254

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/95301 (vdb-entry)
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/539983/30/0/threaded (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-9868?: CVE-2016-9868 is a medium-severity vulnerability in EMC Scaleio, classified under CWE-254. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-01-06.
How severe is CVE-2016-9868?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.