CVE-2016-3296

Edge vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

14.9%

EPSS pct

96th

Exploited

No known

The Chakra JavaScript engine in Microsoft Edge allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted web site, aka "Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Affected vendor

Microsoft

Affected product

Edge

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds

Published

2016-08-09

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, high attack complexity, requiring no privileges, user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 14.9% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

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Confirm whether Microsoft Edge is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2016-3296.
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