Microsoft Office Use-After-Free Vulnerability

Microsoft Office contains a use-after-free vulnerability which can allow for remote code execution.

cat cve-2017-0261.json

Vendor: Microsoft
Product: Office
CVSS: 7.8
EPSS (exploit probability): 78.1%
Status: kev
CISA patch-by (BOD 22-01): March 24, 2022
Published: March 3, 2022
Source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-0261

Microsoft Office contains a use-after-free vulnerability which can allow for remote code execution.

Added to CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2022-03-03. Required action per CISA: Apply updates per vendor instructions. Due date: 2022-03-24.

This is an auto-synced KEV catalog record pending a full 0dayNews write-up — see CISA’s KEV catalog and the NVD record linked above for primary sources.