Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2022-21840 is a remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft Office (rated Critical, CVSS 8.8).

1 version

Facts

Microsoft id
CVE-2022-21840
Products
Microsoft Office
Severity
Critical
Impact
Remote Code Execution
CVSS
8.8
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Exploited
No
Publicly disclosed
No
Exploitability
Exploitation Less Likely
Customer action required
Yes
Release
2022-Jan
Assigned by
Microsoft
MSRC revision
2.0
Status pages
Microsoft 365 apps status
First captured by us
(from our first import of this list)
Microsoft last modified
Source
Security updates · open the original at Microsoft

Microsoft's revision notes

  1. Revision 1.0, 2022-01-11: Information published.
  2. Revision 2.0, 2022-01-13: Microsoft is announcing the availability of the security updates for Microsoft Office for Mac.

Microsoft says

Is the Preview Pane an attack vector for this vulnerability? No, the Preview Pane is not an attack vector.

Security updates,

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