CVE-2017-8501: microsoft excel

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2017-8501 is a high (CVSS 9.3) vulnerability in microsoft excel. EPSS estimates a 22.50% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97.6% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 11-07-2017
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 16-09-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.