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CVE-2016-7256 Unmapped
Microsoft Windows Open Type Font Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
- Vendor / product
- Microsoft — Windows
- Description (CISA)
- A remote code execution vulnerability exists when the Windows font library improperly handles specially crafted embedded fonts. An attacker who successfully exploits this vulnerability could take control of the affected system.
- Added to KEV
- 2022-05-25
- Due date
- 2022-06-15
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- Known ransomware use
- Unknown
- CWE
- CWE-284
- CISA notes
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7256
- 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-2016-7256. CISA's catalogue carries no technique field. kevmap does not infer techniques from the CWE (CWE-284) — here is why — and does not guess.
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