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CVE detail

CVE-2017-11826

Microsoft Office 2010, SharePoint Enterprise Server 2010, SharePoint Server 2010, Web Applications, Office Web Apps Server 2010 and 2013, Word Viewer, Word 2007, 2010, 2013 and 2016, Word Automation Services, and Office Online Server allow remote code execution when the software fails to properly handle objects in memory.

CVSS 7.8 · HighBuzz score 53.8KEV listed

Buzz score

Why this CVE is surfacing

Buzz score total 53.8

This all-time snapshot uses the same composite formula as Trending across a 30-year evidence window, rather than a current rolling window.

Buzz score components · mention 20.8 · diversity 8.0 · KEV 25.0 · OTX 0.0 · PoC 0.0
Mention score
20.8
7 evidence mentions in the snapshot
Diversity score
8.0
3 sources across 1 categories
KEV score
25.0
Known exploited vulnerability present
OTX score
0.0
0 OTX pulses
PoC score
0.0
0 repos · best confidence N/A
Best PoC traction
0
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Why it matters now

Mention timeline

Total mentions
0
within the 30d window
Peak daily
0
highest bucket

Evidence

Source links by recency

Newest mentions first
7 source links · newest first
  • Microsoft’s January 2018 Patch Tuesday updates address more than 50 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day vulnerability in Office related to an Equation Editor flaw that has been exploited by several threat groups in the past few months.

    newswww.securityweek.comJan 9, 2018, 8:33 PM
  • Courtesy of the Windows Defender Exploit Guard that ships with Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, systems running Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system can fend off emerging threats, Microsoft says.

    newswww.securityweek.comNov 1, 2017, 5:24 PM
  • A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Once again thank you! · Forrester, one of the most influential research and advisory firms was hacked · HPE allowed Russians review the code of ArcSight software also used by the Pentagon · Security Affairs newsletter Round […]

    newssecurityaffairs.comOct 15, 2017, 9:17 AM
  • For its October Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has patched 61 vulnerabilities (27 of them critical) and one Office zero-day labeled as “important.” The zero-day The memory corruption zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Office (CVE-2017-11826) is reported to be actively exploited in the wild. “An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the context of the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker could take control … More →

    newswww.helpnetsecurity.comOct 11, 2017, 7:57 PM
  • Microsoft October Patch Tuesday addresses the CVE-2017-11826 Office Zero-Day vulnerability that has been exploited in the wild in targeted attacks. Yesterday we discussed Microsoft’s October Patch Tuesday addressed three critical zero-day security vulnerabilities tied to the DNSSEC protocol. Going deep in the analysis of the Patch Tuesday updates for October 2017 we can see that Microsoft addressed […]

    newssecurityaffairs.comOct 11, 2017, 9:10 AM
  • One of the 62 vulnerabilities patched by Microsoft with the October security updates is a critical Windows flaw that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on a targeted machine via specially crafted DNS responses.

    newswww.securityweek.comOct 11, 2017, 7:55 AM
  • Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday updates for October 2017 address a total of 62 vulnerabilities, including a critical Office zero-day flaw that has been exploited in targeted attacks.

    newswww.securityweek.comOct 10, 2017, 7:31 PM

Exploit code

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