CVE-2016-5537: Oracle Netbeans

Medium severity, CVSS 5.7. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Unspecified vulnerability in the NetBeans component in Oracle Fusion Middleware 8.1 allows local users to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors. NOTE: the previous information is from the October 2016 CPU. Oracle has not commented on third-party claims that this issue is a directory traversal vulnerability which allows local users with certain permissions to write to arbitrary files and consequently gain privileges via a .. (dot dot) in a archive entry in a ZIP file imported as a project.

Affected products

• Oracle Netbeans: version 8.1 only

Published 2016-10-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.