{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 3 products.","exploited":"Yes. Attackers have exploited CVE-2016-0189 in the wild since at least 28 Mar 2022, including in ransomware campaigns.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2016-0189 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available. US federal agencies must fix it by 18 Apr 2022.","what":"CVE-2016-0189 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer, 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."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2016-0189 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2016-0189 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer, 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.\nExploitation: Yes. Attackers have exploited CVE-2016-0189 in the wild since at least 28 Mar 2022, including in ransomware campaigns.\n\nAffected product: Microsoft Internet Explorer. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-0189/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-0189/index.md)","id":"CVE-2016-0189","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-0189/index.md","name":"CVE-2016-0189","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-qw68-vqp7-ff9r"],"analysis":{"component_type":"browser","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["code_execution","denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Internet Explorer scripting","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Remote attackers can execute arbitrary code or cause denial of service via crafted websites exploiting memory corruption in Internet Explorer scripting engines.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"memory_corruption"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"microsoft","cpe":[{"product":"internet_explorer","vendor":"microsoft"},{"product":"jscript","vendor":"microsoft"},{"product":"vbscript","vendor":"microsoft"}],"cvss":{"score":7.5,"severity":"high","source":"cisa-adp","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-787","name":"Out-of-bounds Write"}],"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.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":1,"first_seen":"2016-05-10","github_poc":2,"max_poc_stars":114,"metasploit":1,"nuclei":0,"refs":[{"date":"2016-06-22T23:03:30Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/theori-io/cve-2016-0189","stars":114,"title":"Proof-of-Concept exploit for CVE-2016-0189 (VBScript Memory Corruption in IE11)"},{"date":"2016-06-25T01:48:38Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/deamwork/MS16-051-poc","stars":3,"title":"对CVE-2016-0189漏洞补丁的分析"},{"date":"2016-05-10","kind":"metasploit","ref":"exploit/windows/browser/ms16_051_vbscript","stars":null,"title":"Internet Explorer 11 VBScript Engine Memory Corruption"},{"date":"2016-06-22","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"40118","stars":null,"title":"Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 (Windows 10) - 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