Summary
Microsoft Office Object Linking & Embedding (OLE) dynamic link library (DLL) contains a side loading vulnerability due to it improperly validating input before loading libraries. Successful exploitation allows for remote code execution.
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Office
- Added to KEV
- Nov 3, 2021
- Remediation due
- May 3, 2022 (US federal deadline)
- Ransomware use
- Not known
- Weakness
- CWE-264
- EPSS
- 43.3% 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
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