CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-11882
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability
Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability — Microsoft Office
Microsoft Office contains a memory corruption vulnerability that allows remote code execution in the context of the current user.
- Added to KEV
- 2021-11-03
- Remediation due
- 2022-05-03
- Ransomware use
- Known
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- Notes
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-11882
- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2017-11-15
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 3, Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 2, Microsoft Office 2013 Service Pack 1, and Microsoft Office 2016 allow an attacker to run arbitrary code in the context of the current user by failing to properly handle objects in memory, aka "Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability". This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2017-11884.
Affected configurations
• microsoft office 2007
• microsoft office 2010
• microsoft office 2013
• microsoft office 2016
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://reversingminds-blog.logdown.com/posts/3907313-fileless-attack-in-word-without-macros-cve-2017-11882 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101757 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039783 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://0patch.blogspot.com/2017/11/did-microsoft-just-manually-patch-their.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://0patch.blogspot.com/2017/11/official-patch-for-cve-2017-11882-meets.html Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/0x09AL/CVE-2017-11882-metasploit Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/embedi/CVE-2017-11882 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/rxwx/CVE-2017-11882 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/unamer/CVE-2017-11882 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2017-11882 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2017/12/unit42-analysis-of-cve-2017-11882-exploit-in-the-wild/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://web.archive.org/web/20181104111128/https://embedi.com/blog/skeleton-closet-ms-office-vulnerability-you-didnt-know-about/ Exploit, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43163/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/421280 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://reversingminds-blog.logdown.com/posts/3907313-fileless-attack-in-word-without-macros-cve-2017-11882 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101757 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039783 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://0patch.blogspot.com/2017/11/did-microsoft-just-manually-patch-their.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://0patch.blogspot.com/2017/11/official-patch-for-cve-2017-11882-meets.html Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/0x09AL/CVE-2017-11882-metasploit Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/embedi/CVE-2017-11882 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/rxwx/CVE-2017-11882 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/unamer/CVE-2017-11882 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2017-11882 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2017/12/unit42-analysis-of-cve-2017-11882-exploit-in-the-wild/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://web.archive.org/web/20181104111128/https://embedi.com/blog/skeleton-closet-ms-office-vulnerability-you-didnt-know-about/ Exploit, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43163/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/421280 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2017-11882 US Government Resource