CVE-2016-0002 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability affecting Microsoft's VBScript and JScript engines, present in Internet Explorer versions 8 through 11 and other products. This flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on a user's system simply by enticing them to visit a crafted website. Rated with a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), exploitation requires user interaction (UI:R) and has high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H), though with high attack complexity (AC:H). While there is no known active exploitation (KEV: No) or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB: None), the vulnerability garnered significant community discussion and media coverage at the time of its disclosure.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
5.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:jscript:5.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:jscript:5.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:vbscript:5.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:vbscript:5.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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