November 3, 2021 · Applied Cybernetics Group
CVE-2016-3235 — Microsoft Office
Microsoft Office OLE DLL Side Loading Vulnerability
- Added to KEV
2021-11-03- Federal due date
2022-05-03- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Office
- EPSS
- 99.2th percentile (score 0.812, as of
2026-06-08) - NVD CVSS v3.1
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- Ransomware use
- Unknown
- Upstream
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3235
CISA short 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
Apply updates per vendor instructions.