CVE-2016-3203 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2016-3203?

CVE-2016-3203 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Microsoft Edge, published on 16 Jun 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Microsoft Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows 10 Gold and 1511, and Microsoft Edge allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF document, aka "Windows PDF Remote Code Execution Vulnerability."

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-3203?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Windows 10, Microsoft Windows 8.1, Microsoft Windows Server 2012.

How do I fix CVE-2016-3203?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-3203 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-2016-3203 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-3203 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Edge

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• CVE-2016-7200 Microsoft Edge Memory Corruption Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2016-7201 Microsoft Edge Memory Corruption Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2017-0037 Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer Type Confusion Exploited High 8.1
• CVE-2016-3351 Microsoft Internet Explorer and Edge Information Disclosure Exploited Medium 6.5

All Microsoft Edge vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-qh3v-9g3g-rrf5.