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CVE-2016-3271

32
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-3271 is an information disclosure vulnerability affecting the VBScript engine in Microsoft Edge. A remote attacker can exploit this flaw via a crafted website to obtain sensitive information from process memory. Rated as MEDIUM severity (CVSS 6.5), it requires user interaction (UI:R) but has low attack complexity (AC:L) and no authentication (PR:N), leading to high confidentiality impact (C:H). Despite its high FAUCET Risk Score of 89/100 and above-average EPSS score, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, 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

6.5MEDIUM

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
20.87%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.2087 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 26,209 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

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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

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

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2016-Jul/CVE-2016-3271Important

Windows Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Jul 12, 2016

References

docs.microsoft.com / en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2016/ms16-085
securityfocus.com / bid/91586
securitytracker.com / id/1036286