CVE-2016-7242: Microsoft Edge

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 16.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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-2016-7200, CVE-2016-7201, CVE-2016-7202, CVE-2016-7203, CVE-2016-7208, CVE-2016-7240, and CVE-2016-7243.

Affected products

• Microsoft Edge: any version

Published 2016-11-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.