Microsoft · Office
CVE-2017-11882
Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability
What it is
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.
CISA: Microsoft Office contains a memory corruption vulnerability that allows remote code execution in the context of the current user.
What to do
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Deadline for US federal agencies: May 3, 2022
- Added to the CISA list
- November 3, 2021
- Published
- November 15, 2017
- Severity
- High 7.8 CVSS 3.1
- Chance of attacks in the next 30 days (EPSS)
- 99.9% in the top 0.1% of all known vulnerabilities
- Weakness
- CWE-119
- More details
- NVD · CVE.org · CISA
All references (14)
- https://github.com/embedi/CVE-2017-11882
- https://github.com/unamer/CVE-2017-11882
- http://reversingminds-blog.logdown.com/posts/3907313-fileless-attack-in-word-without-macros-cve-2017-11882
- https://github.com/rxwx/CVE-2017-11882
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101757
- 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/
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039783
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/421280
- 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://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43163/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20181104111128/https://embedi.com/blog/skeleton-closet-ms-office-vulnerability-yo…
More exploited flaws from Microsoft
| Added | Vulnerability | Product | Severity | Attack chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 2026 | Remote Code Execution | Office | High 8.8 | 43% |
| Feb 10, 2026 | Word Reliance on Untrusted Inputs in a Security Decision | Office | High 7.8 | 1.6% |
| Jan 26, 2026 | Security Feature Bypass | Office | High 7.8 | 71% |
| Jan 7, 2026 | PowerPoint Code Injection | Office | High 8.8 | 67% |
| Aug 12, 2025 | Excel Remote Code Execution | Office | High 8.8 | 43% |
| Mar 14, 2023 | Outlook Privilege Escalation | Office | Critical 9.8 | 97% |
| Feb 14, 2023 | Publisher Security Feature Bypass | Office | High 7.3 | 12% |
| Jun 8, 2022 | Object Record Corruption | Office | High 7.8 | 53% |
Sources: Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (CISA, public domain), CVE records (cve.org) and EPSS (FIRST). The chance of attacks is the EPSS estimate that someone will try to exploit the flaw in the next 30 days.