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CVE-2016-0037

30
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-0037 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the forms-based authentication implementation of Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) 3.0 on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2. This flaw allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to cause a daemon outage by sending crafted data, leading to a high-impact denial of service. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (High) and a FAUCET Risk Score of 96/100, it presents a significant risk due to its low attack complexity and lack of required user interaction. Despite its severity, there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
r2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2012:r2:*:*:*:datacenter:*:*:*
r2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2012:r2:*:*:*:essentials:*:*:*
r2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2012:r2:*:*:*:standard:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
26.26%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.2626 is in the 96th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

docs.microsoft.com / en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2016/ms16-020
securityfocus.com / bid/82507
securitytracker.com / id/1034984