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CVE-2026-118292

Stack buffer overflow in Microsoft Excel (user opens content)

CVSS 3.1
8.8 high
EPSS
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Published
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Modified
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A stack-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Office Excel lets an unauthorized attacker run code. The flaw is reachable over the network with no privileges, but the user must interact (for example by opening attacker-controlled content). Successful exploitation can fully compromise confidentiality, integrity, and availability on the affected system. Microsoft has not listed affected builds.

What to do: Apply Microsoft's update for CVE-2026-118292. Microsoft has not stated a fixed version or workaround.

ProductAffected
Microsoft Office Excel—
Estimated exposure
No basis for an estimate.

Order-of-magnitude estimate by the model from install counts, market share and public scan data it knows; verify before quoting.

Description · NVD

Stack-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Office Excel allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code over a network.

Weakness
CWE-121
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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