CVE-2016-5840

7.2 highEPSS 7.8%

High (7.2) in trend micro deep discovery inspector. EPSS 7.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

hotfix_upload.cgi in Trend Micro Deep Discovery Inspector (DDI) 3.7, 3.8 SP1 (3.81), and 3.8 SP2 (3.82) allows remote administrators to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters in the filename parameter of the Content-Disposition header.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

7.2 high

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

EPSS: 7.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 94% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-20
Published: 2016-06-30
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

trend_micro:deep_discovery_inspector

References

http://esupport.trendmicro.com/solution/en-US/1114281.aspx
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN55428526/index.html
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/en/contents/2016/JVNDB-2016-000103.html
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-16-373
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40180/

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