Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2016-0126

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-0126 is a memory corruption vulnerability in Microsoft Office 2013 SP1, 2013 RT SP1, and 2016 that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code through a crafted Office document. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), it presents a significant risk, requiring user interaction (UI:R) but with low attack complexity (AC:L) to achieve high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts (C:H/I:H/A:H). Despite its high severity and EPSS score, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage. The vulnerability is categorized under CWE-119, indicating a memory corruption issue.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2013CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2013:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
2016CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2016:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
19.64%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1964 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 11,616 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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 (5)

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

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2016-May/CVE-2016-0126Important

Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

May 10, 2016

References

docs.microsoft.com / en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2016/ms16-054
securityfocus.com / bid/89938
securitytracker.com / id/1035819