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CVE-2017-11882: Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: yes — in CISA KEV since 2021-11-03
• EPSS: 99.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-11-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

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 products

• Microsoft Office: 2007-sp3, 2010-sp2, 2013-sp1, 2016
• Microsoft Office: Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 3, Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 2, Microsoft Office 2013 Service Pack 1, Microsoft Office 2016

References

• http://reversingminds-blog.logdown.com/posts/3907313-fileless-attack-in-word-without-macros-cve-2017-11882
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101757
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039783
• https://0patch.blogspot.com/2017/11/did-microsoft-just-manually-patch-their.html
• https://0patch.blogspot.com/2017/11/official-patch-for-cve-2017-11882-meets.html
• https://github.com/0x09AL/CVE-2017-11882-metasploit
• https://github.com/embedi/CVE-2017-11882
• https://github.com/rxwx/CVE-2017-11882
• https://github.com/unamer/CVE-2017-11882
• https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2017-11882
• https://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2017/12/unit42-analysis-of-cve-2017-11882-exploit-in-the-wild/
• https://web.archive.org/web/20181104111128/https://embedi.com/blog/skeleton-closet-ms-office-vulnerability-you-didnt-know-about/

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