VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-3235

unknown KEV
Published 2021-11-03 · Modified 2021-11-03
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
2.5

Description

Microsoft Office Object Linking & Embedding (OLE) dynamic link library (DLL) contains a side loading vulnerability due to it improperly validating input before loading libraries. Successful exploitation allows for remote code execution.

CISA KEV

Vendor
Microsoft
Product
Office
Due date
2022-05-03

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
99%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-41706 local windows verified
Metasploit · 2015-12-08

Microsoft Office - OLE Multiple DLL Side Loading Vulnerabilities (MS15-132/MS16-014/MS16-025/MS16-041/MS16-070) (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

exploit_windows/fileformat/office_ole_multiple_dll_hijack rank 300
Office OLE Multiple DLL Side Loading Vulnerabilities
Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

References

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

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