CVE-2017-11882

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: November 15, 2017 at 03:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:02 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorOffice

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploitation
CISA KEV
Exploit prediction
EPSS 100%
SSVC
Active

Actively Exploited

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog

EPSS Score99.9%

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) estimates a 99.9% chance this CVE is exploited in the wild within the next 30 days — higher than 100% of all CVEs. It complements CVSS: a high EPSS on a mid-severity CVE can still be urgent.

Microsoft Office contains a memory corruption vulnerability that allows remote code execution in the context of the current user.

Required Action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Ransomware Use
Known
Added to KEV
Nov 3, 2021
Remediation Due
May 3, 2022
1638 days overdue

Description

Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 3, Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 2, Microsoft Office 2013 Service Pack 1, and Microsoft Office 2016 allow an attacker to run arbitrary code in the context of the current user by failing to properly handle objects in memory, aka "Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability". This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2017-11884.

Affected

References (15)

VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101757
VDB Entryx_refsource_SECTRACKThird Party Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039783
x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/0x09AL/CVE-2017-11882-metasploit
x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/embedi/CVE-2017-11882
x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/rxwx/CVE-2017-11882

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCActiveNot automatableTotal impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

7.8HIGHCISA-ADP
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-119

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