CVE-2017-11882

7.8 HIGH CISA KEV - Actively Exploited

Published: November 15, 2017 Modified: October 22, 2025

Description

Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 3, Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 2, Microsoft Office 2013 Service Pack 1, and Microsoft Office 2016 allow an attacker to run arbitrary code in the context of the current user by failing to properly handle objects in memory, aka "Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability". This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2017-11884.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0

Vector String

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://reversingminds-blog.logdown.com/posts/3907313-fileless-attack-in-word-without-macros-cve-2017-11882

Source: secure@microsoft.com

Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101757

Source: secure@microsoft.com

Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039783

Source: secure@microsoft.com

Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

https://0patch.blogspot.com/2017/11/did-microsoft-just-manually-patch-their.html

Source: secure@microsoft.com

Exploit Third Party Advisory

https://0patch.blogspot.com/2017/11/official-patch-for-cve-2017-11882-meets.html

Source: secure@microsoft.com

Exploit Patch Third Party Advisory

https://github.com/0x09AL/CVE-2017-11882-metasploit

Source: secure@microsoft.com

Exploit Third Party Advisory

https://github.com/embedi/CVE-2017-11882

Source: secure@microsoft.com

Exploit Third Party Advisory

https://github.com/rxwx/CVE-2017-11882

Source: secure@microsoft.com

Exploit Third Party Advisory

https://github.com/unamer/CVE-2017-11882

Source: secure@microsoft.com

Exploit Third Party Advisory

https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2017-11882

Source: secure@microsoft.com

Patch Vendor Advisory

https://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2017/12/unit42-analysis-of-cve-2017-11882-exploit-in-the-wild/

Source: secure@microsoft.com

Exploit Third Party Advisory

https://web.archive.org/web/20181104111128/https://embedi.com/blog/skeleton-closet-ms-office-vulnerability-you-didnt-know-about/

Source: secure@microsoft.com

Exploit Mitigation Third Party Advisory

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43163/

Source: secure@microsoft.com

Exploit Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/421280

Source: secure@microsoft.com

Third Party Advisory US Government Resource

http://reversingminds-blog.logdown.com/posts/3907313-fileless-attack-in-word-without-macros-cve-2017-11882