Summary
Microsoft Office contains a memory corruption vulnerability due to failure to properly handle rich text format files in memory. Successful exploitation allows for remote code execution in the context of the current user.
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Office
- Added to KEV
- Nov 3, 2021
- Remediation due
- May 3, 2022 (US federal deadline)
- Ransomware use
- Not known
- Weakness
- CWE-399
- EPSS
- 97.2% 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