CVE-2016-3235 — Microsoft Office OLE DLL Side Loading Vulnerability
CVE-2016-3235: Microsoft Office OLE DLL Side Loading Vulnerability
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV)
| Vendor / project | Microsoft |
| Product | Office |
| Date added | 2021-11-03 |
| Due date | 2022-05-03 |
| Ransomware campaign use | Unknown |
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.
Required action (CISA)
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3235
Weakness behind it
CISA records this vulnerability as an instance of CWE-264. From there the chain continues into CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques, all inside this corpus.
References
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3235
- KEV catalog: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
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