CVE-2017-16079

CVE-2017-16079 is a high vulnerability published on June 7, 2018. smb was a malicious module published with the intent to hijack environment variables. It has been unpublished by npm.

CVE-2017-16079 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on June 7, 2018, with the most recent update on November 21, 2024. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.

CVE-2017-16079 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 49.2% percentile likelihood of exploitation in the next 30 days — higher percentiles indicate greater predicted risk.

CVE-2017-16079 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.5 (NVD).

Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2017-16079, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.