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CVE-2016-0040
Critical
90.8
RPSRPS range: 0–105; KEV-listed vulnerabilities can receive an exploitation amplifier.
Description
The kernel in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, and Windows 7 SP1 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka "Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability."
Source: NVD
Signals
- CVSS
- 7.8
- High · v3.1
- EPSS
- 24.46%
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (FIRST)
- CISA KEV
- In CISA KEV since Mar 2022
- Fix commit
- No known fix commit
- Sources: MoreFixes, FreshFixes
- Weakness
- Not mapped
- Published
- 10 Feb 2016
- Last modified 22 Apr 2026
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Data as of 7 Oct 2026, 05:16 UK time