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."
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.
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Exploit Probability
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