CVE-2016-7255
ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2016-8111 ↗
Exploited in the Wild
✓ Confirmed 0-Day
★ Google Project Zero
Triaged: March 5, 2026
3 articles
EPSS Score
Source: FIRST.org · 2026-05-24
89.56%
probability
This CVE has a 89.56% probability
of being exploited in the next 30 days.
0%
Top 99.6th percentile of all CVEs
100%
CVSS v3.1
Source: NVD7.8
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
Project ZeroMemory corruption in NtUserSetWindowLongPtr
Affected Products
Google Project Zero
Discovered
Oct. 21, 2016
Patched
Nov. 8, 2016
Reported by
Feike Hacquebord, Peter Pi, and Brooks Li of Trend Micro, Neel Mehta and Billy Leonard of Google’s Threat Analysis Group
Root Cause Analysis
???
Exploits & PoC
yuvatia/page-table-exploitation
A demonstration of how page tables can be used to run arbitrary code in ring-0 and lead to a privesc. Uses CVE-2016-7255 as an example.
11
heh3/CVE-2016-7255
PoC CVE-2016-7255 — heh3/CVE-2016-7255
3
bbolmin/cve-2016-7255_x86_x64
porting CVE-2016-7255 to x86 for educational purposes.
1
3 repos — triés par ⭐
Rechercher sur GitHub ↗
Signal Intelligence
Confidence
95%
EPSS
89.56%
CVSS v3.1
7.8
Mentions
3
Last Seen
Nov 08, 2016
CNA Information
Analyst Note
Auto-imported from Google Project Zero — confirmed zero-day by definition.
Threat Actors 1
Turla Group
apt_group
Information theft and espionage
Russian Federation
Triage Info
Decided atMar 05, 2026