Summary
Microsoft Office contains a memory corruption vulnerability due to the way objects are handled in memory. Successful exploitation allows for remote code execution in the context of the current user. This vulnerability is known to be chained with CVE-2018-0802.
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Office
- Added to KEV
- Nov 3, 2021
- Remediation due
- May 3, 2022 (US federal deadline)
- Ransomware use
- Not known
- Weakness
- CWE-787
- EPSS
- 95.1% as of Nov 12
In the news
- No Asia-Pacific article names this CVE yet.
Linked
Actors named alongside it:
none
Incidents exploiting it:
- none recorded
References