CVE•Published 2026-03-28•Modified 2026-05-01•1 article on news•7 live references•NVD data
CVE-2016-20040
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
8.4
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
7
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 93% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
TiEmu 3.03-nogdb+dfsg-3 contains a buffer overflow vulnerability in the ROM parameter handling that allows local attackers to crash the application or execute arbitrary code. Attackers can supply an oversized ROM parameter to the tiemu command-line interface to overflow the stack buffer and overwrite the instruction pointer with malicious addresses.
Timeline
Published 2026-03-28
Modified 2026-05-01
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2016-20040Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2016-20040Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2016-20040Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2016-20040GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2016-20040" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub
No public proof-of-concept repositories found for CVE-2016-20040 on GitHub.