CVE-2017-11882
High 7.8 Exploited in the wild (KEV) Used in ransomware campaigns
Confirmed active exploitation — CISA KEV catalog
- Name
- Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability
- Added to catalog
- Remediation due date (US federal)
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
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.
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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7.8 (HIGH)
Score source: NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS — exploit probability
- 100% (percentile: 100) as of 1 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-119
Affected products
microsoft: office
References
- https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2017-118… PatchVendor Advisory
- https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2017-118… PatchVendor Advisory
- https://0patch.blogspot.com/2017/11/official-patch-for-cve-2017-11882-meets.html ExploitPatchThird Party Advisory
- https://0patch.blogspot.com/2017/11/official-patch-for-cve-2017-11882-meets.html ExploitPatchThird Party Advisory
- http://reversingminds-blog.logdown.com/posts/3907313-fileless-attack-in-word-wi… ExploitThird Party Advisory
- https://0patch.blogspot.com/2017/11/did-microsoft-just-manually-patch-their.html ExploitThird Party Advisory
- https://github.com/0x09AL/CVE-2017-11882-metasploit ExploitThird Party Advisory
- https://github.com/embedi/CVE-2017-11882 ExploitThird Party Advisory
- https://github.com/rxwx/CVE-2017-11882 ExploitThird Party Advisory
- https://github.com/unamer/CVE-2017-11882 ExploitThird Party Advisory