CVE-2017-8663: microsoft corporation microsoft office

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2017-8663 is a high (CVSS 9.3) vulnerability in microsoft corporation microsoft office. EPSS estimates a 20.08% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 01-08-2017
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 16-09-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Microsoft Outlook 2007 SP3, Outlook 2010 SP2, Outlook 2013 SP1, Outlook 2013 RT SP1, and Outlook 2016 as packaged in Microsoft Office allows a remote code execution vulnerability due to the way Microsoft Outlook parses specially crafted email messages, aka "Microsoft Office Outlook Memory Corruption Vulnerability"

• 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.