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CVE-2026-120005

Heap buffer overflow in Microsoft Office PowerPoint

CVSS 3.1
8.8 high
EPSS
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Published
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Modified
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A heap-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Office PowerPoint lets an unauthorized attacker run code over the network. The attacker needs a user to interact with malicious content; no prior privileges are required. 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-2026-120005. No workaround is named.

ProductAffected
Microsoft Office PowerPoint—
Estimated exposure
largeNo 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

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

Weakness
CWE-122
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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