What is CVE-2026-16174?
Netskope was notified about a potential gap in Netskope Endpoint DLP (EPDLP) running on Windows systems. Successful exploitation of the gap could potentially allow a privileged user to send a crafted message to the EPDLP process port to trigger an integer overflow, leading to memory corruption. Successful exploitation would require the EPDLP module to be enabled in the client configuration, and that Memory Integrity is disabled. A successful exploit could potentially result in a denial-of-service, arbitrary code execution, or privilege escalation on the local machine.
The record classifies CVE-2026-16174 under weakness class CWE-190. 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
- 8.7 — High (derived from score)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H - EPSS (FIRST)
- 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 3.2% of all scored CVEs
- CISA KEV
- Not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
- Threadlinqs priority
- 4.5/10 — 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-2026-16174 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-2026-16174
No vendor patch reference has been recorded for CVE-2026-16174 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-2026-16174
No threat campaign in the Threadlinqs corpus currently references CVE-2026-16174, 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.