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CVE-2016-3214

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-3214 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability in the Chakra JavaScript engine of Microsoft Edge, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service through a crafted website. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (High), it requires user interaction (UI:R) but can be exploited over the network (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its high severity and FAUCET Risk Score of 93/100, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:edge:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
16.30%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
96.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1631 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 14,855 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 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 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Edge (EdgeHTML-based) on Windows 10 Version 1511 for 32-bit Systems
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Edge (EdgeHTML-based) on Windows 10 Version 1511 for x64-based Systems
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 10724-10789
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 10724-10788
View patch
nugetpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: Microsoft.ChakraCoreFixed in: 1.3.0

Vendor Advisories (2)

nugetGHSA-538h-6rv2-wmj3high

ChakraCore RCE Vulnerability

May 14, 2022
microsoft2016-Jun/CVE-2016-3214Critical

Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Jun 14, 2016

References

docs.microsoft.com / en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2016/ms16-068
securitytracker.com / id/1036099