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CVE-2016-0189
CWE-787
High
89.9
RPSRPS range: 0–105; KEV-listed vulnerabilities can receive an exploitation amplifier.
Description
The Microsoft (1) JScript 5.8 and (2) VBScript 5.7 and 5.8 engines, as used in Internet Explorer 9 through 11 and other products, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted web site, aka "Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-0187.
Source: NVD
Signals
- CVSS
- 7.5
- High · v3.1
- EPSS
- 94.06%
- 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
- CWE-787
- Published
- 11 May 2016
- Last modified 22 Apr 2026
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Data as of 7 Oct 2026, 05:16 UK time