microsoft silverlight CVE-2016-0034 is a vulnerability in Microsoft Silverlight
Published on January 13, 2016

Microsoft Silverlight 5 before 5.1.41212.0 mishandles negative offsets during decoding, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (object-header corruption) via a crafted web site, aka "Silverlight Runtime Remote Code Execution Vulnerability."

Vendor Advisory NVD

Known Exploited Vulnerability

This Microsoft Silverlight Runtime Remote Code Execution Vulnerability is part of CISA's list of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities. Microsoft Silverlight mishandles negative offsets during decoding, which allows attackers to execute remote code or cause a denial-of-service.

The following remediation steps are recommended / required by June 15, 2022: The impacted products are end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2016-0034 is exploitable with network access, requires user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. This vulnerability is known to be actively exploited by threat actors. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.

Attack Vector:
NETWORK
Attack Complexity:
LOW
Privileges Required:
NONE
User Interaction:
REQUIRED
Scope:
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact:
HIGH
Integrity Impact:
HIGH
Availability Impact:
HIGH

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Exploit Probability

EPSS
40.53%
Percentile
97.27%

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) scores estimate the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days. The percentile shows you how this score compares to all other vulnerabilities.