CVE-2017-11882
HIGHCISA KEVEPSS 100th pctlDescription
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.
CVSS v3 Vector
Exploitability
Impact
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Exploit Intelligence
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 100% of all known CVEs.
Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Microsoft Office contains a memory corruption vulnerability that allows remote code execution in the context of the current user.
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Remediation due: 2022-05-03
Associated with ransomware campaigns
References
- http://reversingminds-blog.logdown.com/posts/3907313-fileless-attack-in-word-without-macros-cve-2017-11882
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101757
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039783
- https://0patch.blogspot.com/2017/11/did-microsoft-just-manually-patch-their.html
- https://0patch.blogspot.com/2017/11/official-patch-for-cve-2017-11882-meets.html
- https://github.com/0x09AL/CVE-2017-11882-metasploit
- https://github.com/embedi/CVE-2017-11882
- https://github.com/rxwx/CVE-2017-11882
- https://github.com/unamer/CVE-2017-11882
- https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2017-11882
- https://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2017/12/unit42-analysis-of-cve-2017-11882-exploit-in-the-wild/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20181104111128/https://embedi.com/blog/skeleton-closet-ms-office-vulnerability-you-didnt-know-about/
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43163/
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/421280
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2017-11882
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