CVE-2016-0183 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2016-0183?

CVE-2016-0183 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Microsoft Office, published on 11 May 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The Windows font library in Microsoft Office 2010 SP2, Word 2010 SP2, Word Automation Services on SharePoint Server 2010 SP2, and Office Web Apps 2010 SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted embedded font, aka "Microsoft Office Graphics RCE Vulnerability."

Weakness: CWE-284

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-0183?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office Web Apps, Microsoft Sharepoint Server, Microsoft Word.

How do I fix CVE-2016-0183?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-0183 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2016-0183 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-0183 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office

• CVE-2018-0798 Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2015-1770 Microsoft Office Uninitialized Memory Use Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2006-2492 Microsoft Word Malformed Object Pointer Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2018-0802 Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2017-11882 Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Exploited High 7.8

All Microsoft Office vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-79g5-g637-3gxp.