Microsoft Office Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2025-59229 is a denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Office (rated Important, CVSS 5.5).

1 version

Facts

Microsoft id
CVE-2025-59229
Products
Microsoft Office
Severity
Important
Impact
Denial of Service
CVSS
5.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Exploited
No
Publicly disclosed
No
Exploitability
Exploitation Unlikely
Customer action required
Yes
Release
2025-Oct
Assigned by
Microsoft
Weakness
CWE-248: Uncaught Exception
MSRC revision
1.0
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, 2025-10-14: Information published.

Microsoft says

Uncaught exception in Microsoft Office allows an unauthorized attacker to deny service locally. According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R).

Security updates,

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What Microsoft changed

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  1. First version we captured ·

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    Seen by us · Microsoft's timestamp · Microsoft's page

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