CVE-2016-7420
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7420
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-7420.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-7420
- Downstream
- Published
- 2016-09-16T05:59:15.427Z
- Modified
- 2026-07-08T12:44:08.990603Z
- Severity
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- 5.9 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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Crypto++ (aka cryptopp) through 5.6.4 does not document the requirement for a compile-time NDEBUG definition disabling the many assert calls that are unintended in production use, which might allow context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information by leveraging access to process memory after an assertion failure, as demonstrated by reading a core dump.
- References
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- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/28/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/28/4
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/11/14/5
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92988
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/15/12
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/16/1
- https://github.com/weidai11/cryptopp/commit/553049ba297d89d9e8fbf2204acb40a8a53f5cd6
- https://github.com/weidai11/cryptopp/issues/277
Affected packages
Git / github.com/weidai11/cryptopp
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/weidai11/cryptopp
- Events
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Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedLast affectedFixed
- Database specific
{ "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:cryptopp:crypto\\+\\+:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "extracted_events": [ { "introduced": "0" }, { "last_affected": "5.6.4" } ], "source": [ "CPE_RANGE", "REFERENCES" ] }