{"id":"CVE-2016-3301","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2016-3301","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T18:46:07.500Z","title":"The Windows font library in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2; Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1; Windows 7 SP1; Windows 8.1; Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2; Windows RT 8.1; Windows 10 Gold, 1511, and 1607; Office 2007 SP3; Office 2010 SP2; Word Viewer;…","description":"The Windows font library in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2; Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1; Windows 7 SP1; Windows 8.1; Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2; Windows RT 8.1; Windows 10 Gold, 1511, and 1607; Office 2007 SP3; Office 2010 SP2; Word Viewer; Skype for Business 2016; Lync 2013 SP1; Lync 2010; Lync 2010 Attendee; and Live Meeting 2007 Console allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted embedded font, aka \"Windows Graphics Component RCE Vulnerability.\"","published":"2016-08-09T21:59:11.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T00:45:27.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"secure@microsoft.com","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":7.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-20"],"affected":["microsoft/live meeting","microsoft/lync","microsoft/office","microsoft/skype for business","microsoft/word viewer","microsoft/windows 10","microsoft/windows 7","microsoft/windows 8.1","microsoft/windows rt 8.1","microsoft/windows server 2008","microsoft/windows server 2012","microsoft/windows vista"],"epss":{"score":0.44492,"percentile":0.98756,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[{"date":"2026-09-21","score":0.34889,"percentile":0.98402},{"date":"2026-09-22","score":0.44492,"percentile":0.98708}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":1,"verified":true,"firstPublished":"2016-08-17","source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[{"edbId":40255,"kind":"exploit","title":"Microsoft Windows - GDI+ DecodeCompressedRLEBitmap Invalid Pointer Arithmetic Out-of-Bounds Write (MS16-097)","url":"https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40255","sourceUrl":"https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb/-/blob/main/exploits/windows/dos/40255.txt","file":"exploits/windows/dos/40255.txt","published":"2016-08-17","added":"2016-08-17","updated":"2016-10-31","author":"Google Security Research","type":"dos","platform":"windows","port":null,"verified":true,"codes":["CVE-2016-3301","MS16-097"],"tags":null,"aliases":null,"applicationUrl":null,"screenshotUrl":null,"referenceUrl":"https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=824"}]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 44.5%, higher than 99% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window."},"changes":[{"kind":"epss","label":"EPSS jump","at":"2026-09-22T00:00:00.000Z","detail":{"to":0.44492,"from":0.34889,"percentile":0.98708},"summary":"EPSS moved from 34.9% to 44.5% probability of exploitation in the next thirty days."}],"references":[{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92288","source":"secure@microsoft.com"},{"url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036564","source":"secure@microsoft.com"},{"url":"https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2016/ms16-097","source":"secure@microsoft.com"},{"url":"https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40255/","source":"secure@microsoft.com"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92288","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036564","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2016/ms16-097","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40255/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3301","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}