How severe is CVE-2016-3976?

CVE-2016-3976 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.5 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 47.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2016-3976: SAP NetWeaver Directory Traversal

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

SAP NetWeaver Directory Traversal Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2021-11-03

Remediation due

2022-05-03

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3976

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in SAP NetWeaver AS Java 7.1 through 7.5 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a ..\ (dot dot backslash) in the fileName parameter to CrashFileDownloadServlet, aka SAP Security Note 2234971.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA7.5 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableyes

Technical impactpartial

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
-	-	n/a

References

6 Links

Exploits & PoCs

39996

Mailing lists

20160618 [ERPSCAN-16-012] SAP NetWeaver AS JAVA - directory traversal vulnerability

Other references

Record Details

Published

2016-04-07

Last updated

2025-10-21

Assigner (CNA)

mitre

Credited to

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