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CVE-2021-40481Microsoft Office Visio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
- 7.1HighCVSS base score
- 5.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 6.7% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Microsoft Office Visio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 41 days later
· 41 days later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| microsoftCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:C |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.9% · top 6.7% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.1.
Affected products
Microsoft · Microsoft Office 2019
- affected 19.0.0 – < https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
Microsoft · Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise
- affected 16.0.1 – < https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
Microsoft · Microsoft Office LTSC 2021
- affected 16.0.1 – < https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
References
References2
- https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2021-40481 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-1160/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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)
- EUVD EUVD-2021-27658 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2021-40481)Record last updated .