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CVE-2016-0120

53
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-0120 is a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Adobe Type Manager Library affecting multiple versions of Microsoft Windows, including Windows 7, 8.1, and 10. A remote attacker can trigger a system hang by providing a specially crafted OpenType font. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.5 (Medium), indicating it can be exploited remotely with low complexity, requiring user interaction, to achieve high availability impact. While not listed on CISA's KEV catalog, an exploit for this vulnerability (EDB-39561) is available on ExploitDB, and it has received some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1511CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_10:1511:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_7:-:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_8.1:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_rt_8.1:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
39.05%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
98.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-39561 · Mar 14, 2016
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.3905 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 26,221 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

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/ms16-026
exploit-db.com / exploits/39561
securityfocus.com / bid/84071
securitytracker.com / id/1035198