CVE-2017-11882
Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 3, Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 2, Microsoft Office 2013 Service Pack 1, and Microsoft Office…
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 99.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.1% of all CVEs
- YesKnown exploitedin CISA's KEV since 3 Nov 2021
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
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.
Exploited in the wild
CISA lists this vulnerability in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability.
- Added
- 3 Nov 2021
- Fix due (US federal)
- 3 May 2022
- Used by ransomware
- Known
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ENISA's EU Vulnerability Database lists it as exploited, from CISA's KEV, since 3 Nov 2021.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and an Exploit-DB entry for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: it is being exploited.
Show the exploits3
Metasploit modules1 module
- Microsoft Office CVE-2017-11882 (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/fileformat/office_ms17_11882Rank manualdisclosed 15 Nov 2017
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Microsoft Office - OLE Remote Code Execution (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 43163remote, windowspublished 20 Nov 2017Not verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 43163 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Added to CISA KEV
Known exploited, also by ransomware
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 99.9% · top 0.1% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: active · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Affected products
Microsoft Corporation · Microsoft Office
- affected Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 3, Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 2, Microsoft Office 2013 Service Pack 1, Microsoft Office 2016
References
15
- https://github.com/embedi/CVE-2017-11882 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/unamer/CVE-2017-11882 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://reversingminds-blog.logdown.com/posts/3907313-fileless-attack-in-word-without-macros-cve-2017-11882 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/rxwx/CVE-2017-11882 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 101757 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2017-11882 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2017/12/unit42-analysis-of-cve-2017-11882-exploit-in-the-wild/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 1039783 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- VU#421280 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- https://0patch.blogspot.com/2017/11/did-microsoft-just-manually-patch-their.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://0patch.blogspot.com/2017/11/official-patch-for-cve-2017-11882-meets.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/0x09AL/CVE-2017-11882-metasploit (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 43163 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- https://web.archive.org/web/20181104111128/https://embedi.com/blog/skeleton-closet-ms-office-vulnerability-you-didnt-know-about/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2017-11882 (opens in a new tab)government-resource
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- CISA KEV catalog (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2017-3478 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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