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CVE-2026-118702

Double free in Microsoft Office Excel via crafted file

CVSS 3.1
8.8 high
EPSS
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Published
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Modified
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A double-free flaw in Microsoft Office Excel lets an attacker run code if a user opens malicious content. The attack is remote and needs no prior privileges, but it does require user interaction. Successful exploitation gives high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the Excel process. Microsoft has not listed affected builds.

What to do: Apply Microsoft's update for CVE-2026-118702. No workaround is stated.

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

Double free in Microsoft Office Excel allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code over a network.

Weakness
CWE-415
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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