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high 7.8

CVE-2017-8501 in the critical feed json

Microsoft Office allows a remote code execution vulnerability due to the way that it handles objects in memory, aka "Microsoft Office Memor…

published 2017-07-11 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-17451

cvss
7.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
22.5%
EPSS 22.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Microsoft Office allows a remote code execution vulnerability due to the way that it handles objects in memory, aka "Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability". This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2017-8502.

Patch / fix

Exploit prediction

22.50% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

  • Microsoft Corporation Microsoft Office 2007 SP3, Microsoft Excel Viewer 2007 SP3, Microsoft Office 2010 SP2, Excel Services on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 SP1, Microsoft Office for Mac 2011, Microsoft Excel 2013 SP1, Microsoft Excel 2013 RT SP1, Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server 2013, Microsoft Excel 2016, Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac, Microsoft Office Online Server 2016, and Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack SP3.

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.