CVE-2016-3291

low
Published 2016-09-14 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
2.4
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
2.4

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 and Microsoft Edge mishandle cross-origin requests, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted web site, aka "Microsoft Browser Information Disclosure Vulnerability."

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
36%
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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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
windows microsoftedge-
windows microsoftinternet_explorer11

References

CWEs

CWE-200

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

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