CVE-2016-1569

6.5 mediumEPSS 2.3%

FireBird 2.5.5 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) by using service manager to invoke the gbak utility with an invalid parameter.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

6.5 medium

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 83% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-20
Published: 2016-01-13
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

firebirdsql:firebird

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177119.html
http://sourceforge.net/p/firebird/code/62783/
http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-5068
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/10/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/10/3

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