CVE-2016-7277 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability affecting Microsoft Office 2016, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service through crafted documents. With a CVSS score of 9.6, it presents a high-impact threat, requiring user interaction (UI:R) but with low attack complexity (AC:L) and no prior privileges needed (PR:N). While there is no evidence of active exploitation in the wild (KEV: No) and no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB: None), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, indicating awareness among security researchers.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2016CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2016:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.8 Bluesky, 0.5 Mastodon, and 1.2 GitHub 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.