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CVE-2018-0805 in the critical feed json

Equation Editor in Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Office 2013, and Microsoft Office 2016 al…

published 8y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2018-1611

cvss
8.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
24.4%
EPSS 24.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Equation Editor in Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Office 2013, and Microsoft Office 2016 allows a remote code execution vulnerability due to the way objects are handled in memory, aka "Microsoft Word Remote Code Execution Vulnerability". This CVE is unique from CVE-2018-0804, CVE-2018-0806, and CVE-2018-0807

Patch / fix

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Exploit prediction

24.40% 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 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/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 Equation Editor

References

Sources

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