Security advisory

{
  "id": "26dceb11b74c99b824fd07bb135ef9e8bb7abb1bc595bfdd15437c197d7dc46b",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-7420",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2016-7420",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-7420",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2016-7420",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2016-7420"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/weidai11/cryptopp",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "4132d85888ac6c30729f58bb442a4a26a5b16cfe"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "553049ba297d89d9e8fbf2204acb40a8a53f5cd6"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:cryptopp:crypto\\+\\+:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "5.6.4"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "fixed": "553049ba297d89d9e8fbf2204acb40a8a53f5cd6"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "CRYPTOPP_5_6_2",
            "CRYPTOPP_5_6_4",
            "CRYPTOPP_5_6_3",
            "CRYPTOPP_5_6_1",
            "CRYPTOPP_5_6_0",
            "CRYPTOPP_5_5_2",
            "CRYPTOPP_5_5_1",
            "CRYPTOPP_5_5",
            "CRYPTOPP_5_4",
            "CRYPTOPP_5_3_0",
            "CRYPTOPP_5_2_3",
            "CRYPTOPP_5_2_1",
            "CRYPTOPP_5_2",
            "CRYPTOPP_5_1",
            "CRYPTOPP_5_0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-7420.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:47:52.317213723Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/weidai11/cryptopp/commit/553049ba297d89d9e8fbf2204acb40a8a53f5cd6",
        "https://github.com/weidai11/cryptopp/issues/277"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2016-7420",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 379792,
  "published_at": "2016-09-16T05:59:15.427+00:00"
}