CVE-2017-11882
Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 3, Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 2, Microsoft Office 2013 Service Pack 1, and Microsoft Office…
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- microsoft
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.
Exploited in the wild
CISA lists this vulnerability in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability.
- Added
- 3 Nov 2021
- Fix due (US federal)
- 3 May 2022
- Used by ransomware
- Known
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Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 99.9% · top 0.1% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: active · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Weakness
Affected products
Microsoft Corporation · Microsoft Office
- affected Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 3, Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 2, Microsoft Office 2013 Service Pack 1, Microsoft Office 2016
References (15)
- https://github.com/embedi/CVE-2017-11882 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/unamer/CVE-2017-11882 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://reversingminds-blog.logdown.com/posts/3907313-fileless-attack-in-word-without-macros-cve-2017-11882 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/rxwx/CVE-2017-11882 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 101757 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2017-11882 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2017/12/unit42-analysis-of-cve-2017-11882-exploit-in-the-wild/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 1039783 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- VU#421280 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- https://0patch.blogspot.com/2017/11/did-microsoft-just-manually-patch-their.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://0patch.blogspot.com/2017/11/official-patch-for-cve-2017-11882-meets.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/0x09AL/CVE-2017-11882-metasploit (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 43163 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- https://web.archive.org/web/20181104111128/https://embedi.com/blog/skeleton-closet-ms-office-vulnerability-you-didnt-know-about/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2017-11882 (opens in a new tab)government-resource
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- CISA KEV catalog (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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