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CVE-2016-4980

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-11-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-330

Description

A password generation weakness exists in xquest through 2016-06-13.

Affected products

• Ethz Xquest: through 2016-06-13
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 23
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 6.0, 7.0

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-4980
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1346016
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-4980
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AVW2QJFNZUZYBN4M4YUE7S2NZBWWMGES/
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-4980
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1346016
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-4980
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AVW2QJFNZUZYBN4M4YUE7S2NZBWWMGES/

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