Coverage › CVE-2016-3298
CVE-2016-3298 Unmapped
Microsoft Internet Explorer Messaging API Information Disclosure Vulnerability
- Vendor / product
- Microsoft — Internet Explorer
- Description (CISA)
- An information disclosure vulnerability exists when the Microsoft Internet Messaging API improperly handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could allow the attacker to test for the presence of files on disk.
- Added to KEV
- 2022-05-24
- Due date
- 2022-06-14
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- Known ransomware use
- Unknown
- CWE
- CWE-200
- CISA notes
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3298
- Elsewhere
- cve.org · NVD · CISA KEV · JSON
ATT&CK techniques
No public source states how this vulnerability is exploited in ATT&CK terms.
The only authoritative CVE → ATT&CK mapping in the open — CTID's Mappings Explorer, pinned to a KEV snapshot of 2025-07-28 and ATT&CK 16.1 — does not include CVE-2016-3298. CISA's catalogue carries no technique field. kevmap does not infer techniques from the CWE (CWE-200) — here is why — and does not guess.
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