Summary
Microsoft Office PowerPoint contains a code injection vulnerability that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PowerPoint file with an OutlineTextRefAtom containing an invalid index value that triggers memory corruption.
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Office
- Added to KEV
- Jan 7, 2026
- Remediation due
- Jan 28, 2026 (US federal deadline)
- Ransomware use
- Not known
- Weakness
- CWE-94
- EPSS
- 67.3% 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