CVE-2016-7231

Exploitation

Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.

SSVC decision

Not assessed by CISA

EPSS probability

18.66% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 97.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

7.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

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

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2016-11-10 06:16Z9 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 01:57Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2016-09-09

Assigning CNA

microsoft

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass

Data version

5.1

Document digest

a0446d0911120cca01ae1f04ed6131000e36b51929f70396622cc6ab18d5d3a0

• www.securityfocus.com93996http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93996vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• docs.microsoft.comMS16-133https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2016/ms16-133vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MS
• www.securitytracker.com1037246http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037246vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK