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CVE-2016-7236

36
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-7236 is a memory corruption vulnerability affecting Microsoft Excel 2010 SP2, Excel for Mac 2011/2016, and Excel Services on SharePoint Server 2010 SP2. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code when a user opens a specially crafted Office document. Rated with a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), it requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV: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, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2010CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:2010:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
2011CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel_for_mac:2011:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2016CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel_for_mac:2016:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2010CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:sharepoint_server:2010:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
20.72%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.2072 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 11,616 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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 (6)

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 9171-10495
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Excel 2010 Service Pack 2 (32-bit editions)
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Excel 2010 Service Pack 2 (64-bit editions)
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Excel 2016 for Mac
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Excel for Mac 2011
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Excel Services on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Service Pack 2
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2016-Nov/CVE-2016-7236Important

Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Nov 8, 2016

References

docs.microsoft.com / en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2016/ms16-133
verisign.com / en_US/security-services/security-intelligence/vulnerability-reports/articles/index.xhtml
securityfocus.com / bid/94025
securitytracker.com / id/1037246