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CVE-2017-0003

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-0003 is a memory corruption vulnerability affecting Microsoft Word 2016 and SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code through crafted documents. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), it requires user interaction (e.g., opening a malicious document) but can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While it has a high EPSS and FAUCET Risk Score, indicating significant potential impact, there is no known active exploitation, KEV entry, or public exploit code available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB. Despite this, it garnered notable community discussion and media coverage at the time of its disclosure.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2016CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:sharepoint_enterprise_server:2016:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2016CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:word: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
24.69%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.2469 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 11,621 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

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 (3)

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Word 2016 (32-bit edition)
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Word 2016 (64-bit edition)
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2017-Jan/CVE-2017-0003Important

Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Jan 10, 2017

References

fortiguard.com / advisory/FG-VD-16-079
docs.microsoft.com / en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2017/ms17-002
securityfocus.com / bid/95287
securitytracker.com / id/1037568
securitytracker.com / id/1037569