CVE-2016-5765
Telemetry drift only. No threshold crossed and no authority ruling changed.
CVE record, CISA KEV and EPSS as of 2026-10-18.
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What to do now held facts and links
- No fix version is held. The CNA's first reference is the place to look: support.attachmate.com
- Record your decision, dated and frozen with today's evidence: patch by a date · mitigated by a compensating control · deferred · accepted the risk · not affected
- Check your version against the ranges this record publishes.
What it is stated by the CNA
Administrative Server in Micro Focus Host Access Management and Security Server (MSS) and Reflection for the Web (RWeb) and Reflection Security Gateway (RSG) and Reflection ZFE (ZFE) allows remote unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files via a specially crafted URL that allows limited directory traversal. Applies to MSS 12.3 before 12.3.326 and MSS 12.2 before 12.2.342 and RSG 12.1 before 12.1.362 and RWeb 12.3 before 12.3.312 and RWeb 12.2 before 12.2.342 and RWeb 12.1 before 12.1.362 and ZFE 2.0.1 before 2.0.1.18 and ZFE 2.0.0 before 2.0.0.52 and ZFE 1.4.0 before 1.4.0.14.
- weakness
- Information disclosure
- affected
- n/a Micro Focus MSS, RWeb, ZFE, RSG 1.x, 2.x, 12.x
- published ranges
- microfocus host access management and security server 12.2; microfocus host access management and security server 12.3; microfocus reflection for the web 12.1; microfocus reflection for the web 12.2; and 5 more on the CVE page
- fixed in
- No fix version in held sources.
- assigned by
- microfocus
- published
- 2016-11-29
check us support.attachmate.com zerodayinitiative.com securityfocus.com
Exploit code held, dated
- exploit code
- None held in the PoC-in-GitHub feed. A public repository changes this brief.
What moved held, dated
| date | EPSS | event |
|---|---|---|
| 4 Feb 2022 | 0.01136 | |
| 7 Mar 2023 | 0.01517 | scoring model v2023.03.01 |
| 16 Apr 2023 | 0.02033 | |
| 26 May 2023 | 0.01628 | |
| 13 Jun 2024 | 0.13622 | crossed 0.10 |
| 17 Mar 2025 | 0.00851 | crossed 0.10 · scoring model v2025.03.14 |
| 15 Jun 2026 | 0.02219 | scoring model v2026.06.15 |
| 23 Aug 2026 | 0.01871 | |
| 30 Aug 2026 | 0.02219 | |
| 5 Sep 2026 | 0.01871 | |
| 6 Sep 2026 | 0.02219 |
25 observations held. A step marked with a scoring model moved because the measurement was replaced, not because the vulnerability changed.
Outside the record researched, cited
This section reads the record's references and adds cited findings from outside it. It needs an account. Everything above is held facts and is complete without it.
What would change this brief held, dated
- CISA KEV
- Not listed in the catalogue we hold. A listing changes this brief.
- exploit probability
- 0.02 on 2026-09-06 (FIRST's EPSS, a probability and not evidence of exploitation). Next band line: 10% (0.10). Crossing a line changes this brief.
- fix
- No fix version is held. One published by the CNA or OSV changes this brief.
How to check this
Every value above is held with two dates: when it was true upstream (as_of) and when we recorded it (tx_from). Re-derive the exploit probability as it stood on any date:
SELECT value, source, source_version, as_of, tx_from
FROM volatile_valid_as_of('CVE-2016-5765', '2026-11-02T23:59:59.999999Z', now());