What is CVE-2026-16172?
Netskope was notified of an out-of-bounds heap read affecting the Endpoint DLP (EPDLP) service of the Netskope Client. A local standard user could potentially send a specially crafted message that is not properly validated with a bounds check, likely crashing the kernel driver handler. Successful exploitation could potentially crash the EPDLP service, temporarily interrupting DLP enforcement. A successful exploit could potentially also reveal per-boot memory layout information to unauthorized users.
The record classifies CVE-2026-16172 under weakness class CWE-125. 1 affected-product entry is recorded, across 1 vendor, listed below. The identifier was first published 25 days ago.
Severity and exploitation probability
- CVSS v4.0 base score
- 6 — Medium (derived from score)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H - EPSS (FIRST)
- 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 1.6% of all scored CVEs
- CISA KEV
- Not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
- Threadlinqs priority
- 3.1/10 — a Threadlinqs composite of the CVSS base score, the EPSS percentile and public exploit availability
- Published
- 2026-09-10, last modified 2026-09-11
Is CVE-2026-16172 being exploited?
It currently carries a trending score of 30 in the Threadlinqs vulnerability feed.
Affected products and versions
- Netskope: Endpoint DLP
How to fix CVE-2026-16172
No vendor patch reference has been recorded for CVE-2026-16172 in the tracked sources. Follow the references below for a fix, and treat the products listed above as exposed until the vendor states otherwise.
Threat activity tracking CVE-2026-16172
No threat campaign in the Threadlinqs corpus currently references CVE-2026-16172, in its CVE list or as an indicator. The linkage is recomputed from the live corpus on every daily ingest, so this section fills in as soon as a tracked campaign cites the identifier.
Sources
Enriched from CVE.org, NVD, GitHub Security Advisories, FIRST EPSS. Last verified by Threadlinqs on . This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.