CVE-2017-11882: Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Actively exploited. At least one CVE in this advisory is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog — exploitation has been observed in the wild. Treat remediation as urgent.
Microsoft Office contains a memory corruption vulnerability that allows remote code execution in the context of the current user.
CSIRTS triage
- What
- A memory corruption vulnerability allows remote code execution in the context of the current user.
- Who is affected
- Users of Microsoft Office are affected by this vulnerability.
- Urgency
- Immediate action is required due to the critical nature of the vulnerability and successful exploitation being possible.
- Action
- Apply the latest security updates for Microsoft Office.
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Details
Original advisory: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-11882
Exploitation outlook
EPSS (FIRST.org) estimates each CVE’s probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — here is the CSIRTS.com read on those numbers.
- Exploitation confirmedCVE-2017-11882Already exploited in the wild (CISA KEV) — the prediction phase is over. Patch now. Riskier than 100% of all scored CVEs.
Referenced CVEs
| CVE | CSIRTS overview | External |
|---|---|---|
| CVE-2017-11882 | coverage & exploitation status | NVD · CVE.org |
Recent advisories for Microsoft Office Memory
A cluster of recent advisories against the same product widens the attack surface — attackers routinely chain freshly published CVEs on one product, so review these together.
- criticalexploitedCVE-2015-1770: Microsoft Office Uninitialized Memory Use Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2022-03-28
- criticalexploitedCVE-2015-1642: Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2022-03-03
- criticalexploitedCVE-2016-7193: Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2022-03-03
- criticalexploitedCVE-2018-0802: Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2021-11-03
- criticalexploitedCVE-2018-0798: Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2021-11-03
- criticalexploitedCVE-2015-1641: Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2021-11-03
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