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CVE-2016-3278

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CVE-2016-3278 is a memory corruption vulnerability affecting Microsoft Outlook 2010 SP2, 2013 SP1, 2013 RT SP1, and 2016, allowing remote code execution through specially crafted Office documents. With a CVSS v3 score of 7.8 (High), it requires user interaction (UI:R) to open a malicious document, but successful exploitation grants an attacker full control over the affected system (C:H/I:H/A:H). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2010CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:outlook:2010:sp2:*:*:*:*:x64:*
2013CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:outlook:2013:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
2016CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:outlook:2016:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2013CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:outlook_rt:2013:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
20.37%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.2037 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 11,616 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (7)

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Outlook 2010 Service Pack 2 (32-bit editions)
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Outlook 2010 Service Pack 2 (64-bit editions)
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Outlook 2013 Service Pack 1 (64-bit editions)
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Outlook 2013 Service Pack 1 (32-bit editions)
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Outlook 2013 RT Service Pack 1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Outlook 2016 (32-bit edition)
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Outlook 2016 (64-bit edition)
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2016-Jul/CVE-2016-3278Important

Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Jul 12, 2016

References

docs.microsoft.com / en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2016/ms16-088
securityfocus.com / bid/91574
securitytracker.com / id/1036274