How severe is CVE-2016-7200?

CVE-2016-7200 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 8.8 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 82.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2016-7200: Microsoft Edge Memory Corruption Vulnerability

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Microsoft Edge Memory Corruption Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2022-03-28

Remediation due

2022-04-18

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7200

Description

The Chakra JavaScript scripting engine in Microsoft Edge allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted web site, aka "Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-7201, CVE-2016-7202, CVE-2016-7203, CVE-2016-7208, CVE-2016-7240, CVE-2016-7242, and CVE-2016-7243.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA8.8 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableno

Technical impacttotal

Exploitation Context

as of October 14, 2026

All KEV statistics→

CISA added CVE-2016-7200 to the KEV catalog 1,964 days after its CVE record was published.
It is one of 391 Microsoft entries in the CISA KEV catalog, and one of 166 added in 2022.
Its current EPSS score (82.8%) is higher than that of 65% of CISA KEV entries.

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
-	-	n/a

References

7 Links

Vendor advisories

MS16-129

Exploits & PoCs

Vulnerability databases

Other references

Record Details

Published

2016-11-10

Last updated

2025-10-21

Assigner (CNA)

microsoft

Credited to

More from Microsoft

All Microsoft CVEs→

CVE-2016-72018.8 HIGH

Microsoft Edge Memory Corruption Vulnerability

KEVEPSS 80.0%2016-11-10

CVE-2015-16359.8 CRITICAL

Microsoft HTTP.sys Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

KEVEPSS 100.0%2015-04-14

CVE-2019-07089.8 CRITICAL

Microsoft Remote Desktop Services Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

MicrosoftKEVEPSS 100.0%2019-05-16

CVE-2025-537709.8 CRITICAL

Microsoft SharePoint Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

MicrosoftKEVEPSS 100.0%2025-07-20

CVE record data © The MITRE Corporation, used under the CVE Terms of Use. Exploited-in-the-wild data from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (CC0). Exploit prediction scores by FIRST EPSS (first.org/epss). This site is not endorsed or certified by MITRE, NVD, CISA, or FIRST.