CVE-2017-8501
Microsoft Office allows a remote code execution vulnerability due to the way that it handles objects in memory, aka "Microsoft Office…
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- microsoft
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 22.5% · top 2.3% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Weakness
- Remote Code Execution
- CWE-119 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-119 and its CVEs
Affected products
Microsoft Corporation · Microsoft Office 2007 SP3, Microsoft Excel Viewer 2007 SP3, Microsoft Office 2010 SP2, Excel Services on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 SP1, Microsoft Office for Mac 2011, Microsoft Excel 2013 SP1, Microsoft Excel 2013 RT SP1, Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server 2013, Microsoft Excel 2016, Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac, Microsoft Office Online Server 2016, and Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack SP3.
- affected Microsoft Office
References (3)
- 1038851 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 99441 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-us/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2017-8501 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
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)
- FIRST EPSS (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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