Threat Brief: Office Documents Can Be Dangerous (But We’ll Continue to Use Them Anyway)
Vulnerabilities mentioned
All| CVE | Vulnerability | CVSS | EPSS | Signals | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2017-0199 | Remote Code Execution in Microsoft Office and WordPad via crafted document files | 7.8 | 99% | KEVRansomwarePoC ×6 | KEV |
| CVE-2017-11882 | Memory Corruption RCE in Microsoft Office via Legacy Equation Editor | 7.8 | 100% | KEVRansomwarePoC ×10 | KEV |
CVE-2018-0798+2 related CVEs | Memory Corruption RCE in Microsoft Office Equation Editor (CVE-2018-0798) | 8.8 group max | 95% | KEV | KEV |
| CVE-2018-4878 | Use-After-Free RCE in Adobe Flash Player before 28.0.0.161 | 7.8 | 90% | KEVRansomwarePoC ×2 | KEV |
| CVE-2018-8174 | Out-of-Bounds Write RCE in Microsoft Windows VBScript Engine | 7.5 | 88% | KEVRansomwarePoC ×2 | KEV |
From the original article
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Nearly all of us have a use for Microsoft Office documents. Whether they are work documents, e-receipts, or a lease on a new apartment – Office documents are useful to all of us, and this is part of the reason we’re very likely to open an office document we receive as an attachment in e-mail.
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