CVE•Published 2026-03-28•Modified 2026-05-01•1 article on news•7 live references•NVD data
CVE-2016-20042
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
5
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 95% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
TRN 3.6-23 contains a stack buffer overflow vulnerability that allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code by supplying an oversized argument to the application. Attackers can craft a malicious command-line argument with 156 bytes of padding followed by a return address to overwrite the instruction pointer and execute shellcode with user privileges.
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-2016-20042Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2016-20042Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2016-20042Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2016-20042GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2016-20042" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.