CVE-2016-3357

high
Published 2016-09-14 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
7.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.8

Description

Microsoft Office 2007 SP3, Office 2010 SP2, Office 2013 SP1, Office 2013 RT SP1, Office 2016, Word for Mac 2011, Word 2016 for Mac, Word Viewer, Word Automation Services on SharePoint Server 2010 SP2, SharePoint Server 2013 SP1, Excel Automation Services on SharePoint Server 2013 SP1, Word Automation Services on SharePoint Server 2013 SP1, Office Web Apps 2010 SP2, and Office Web Apps Server 2013 SP1 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted document, aka "Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-40406 dos windows verified
Google Security Research ยท 2016-09-21

Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2010 - Invalid Pointer Reference

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
windows microsoftoffice2007
windows microsoftoffice2010
windows microsoftoffice2013
windows microsoftoffice2016
windows microsoftoffice_web_apps2010
windows microsoftoffice_web_apps_server2013
windows microsoftsharepoint_foundation2010
windows microsoftsharepoint_foundation2013
windows microsoftword_for_mac2011
windows microsoftword_for_mac2016
windows microsoftword_viewer

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.