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CISA KEV · ACTIVELY EXPLOITED
MEDIUM severity

CVE-2016-2388

MEDIUM

CVE-2016-2388 is a medium-severity (CVSS 5.3) Information Exposure vulnerability. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-06-09) — treat it as actively exploited and patch now. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.

The Universal Worklist Configuration in SAP NetWeaver AS JAVA 7.4 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive user information via a crafted HTTP request, aka SAP Security Note 2256846.

Published
Updated
Affected
1 product
Patched
See advisory
Exploits
10 known
Exploitation data as of Oct 22, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org (EPSS)

Exploitation Status

Actively exploited in the wild

  • Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2022-06-09. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2022-06-30.
  • CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.

Exploitation and automatability from CISA (KEV catalog and SSVC triage) for CVE-2016-2388.

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
52.2%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
High Risk0.00%
Lower risk than most CVEs99th percentile — riskier than 99% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
46.7%55.3%64.0%72.6%62.3%52.2%Apr 26Aug 26Oct 26

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.

How urgent is this, really

CVE-2016-2388 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). Outside the shaded patch-first corner.

Where this sits among everything scored

Of 394,803 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the 50–90% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.

Description

The Universal Worklist Configuration in SAP NetWeaver AS JAVA 7.4 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive user information via a crafted HTTP request, aka SAP Security Note 2256846.

Affected Products

1 product · 1 configurations
Application
netweaver application server javasap
≥ 7.10 && ≤ 7.50
range
Exploits & PoCs
10

Research use only. For defensive security, authorized penetration testing, and academic research only. Never execute exploit code against systems without explicit written authorization.

EDB-39841webappsxml

SAP NetWeaver AS JAVA 7.1 < 7.5 - Information Disclosure

by ERPScan · May 19, 2016

Exploit-DB Source
EDB-43495webappsmultiple

SAP NetWeaver J2EE Engine 7.40 - SQL Injection

by Vahagn Vardanyan · Jan 10, 2018

Exploit-DB Source

Detection & mitigation playbook

Vulnerability

  1. Detect

    Identify every host running the affected component and compare the installed build against the fixed version below — for source-built or distro-packaged software the version string, not a lockfile, is the source of truth (`dpkg -l`, `rpm -q`, or the binary's own `--version`).

  2. Remediation status

    No fixed release is recorded for CVE-2016-2388 yet. Track the upstream advisory, and apply the exposure-reduction steps below in the meantime.

  3. Mitigate without a patch

    Assume what was exposed is already known: rotate any credential, token or key that the affected component could return, restrict the endpoint to callers that genuinely need it, and strip sensitive fields from responses and error output at the boundary rather than relying on the client not to read them.

Frequently Asked Questions

The Universal Worklist Configuration in SAP NetWeaver AS JAVA 7.4 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive user information via a crafted HTTP request, aka SAP Security Note 2256846.
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CVE-2016-2388: Info Disclosure (Medium 5.3, KEV)