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high 7.5

CVE-2016-7287 in the critical feed json

The scripting engines in Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 and Microsoft Edge allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a deni…

published 2016-12-20 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-8143

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
69.7%
EPSS 69.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.3%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

The scripting engines in Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 and Microsoft Edge allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted web site, aka "Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-40948)

Exploit prediction

69.66% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.3% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-40948 Microsoft Edge - Internationalization Initialization Type Confusion (MS16-144) dos, 2016-12-21

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.6 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.