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Vulnerability · CVE-2017-11882

Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Published Nov 14, 2017 · catalog updated Jun 16, 2026 · Microsoft Office

Patch now

CVE-2017-11882 is in the CISA known-exploited catalog, due May 3, 2022. Confirm Microsoft Office against the vendor advisory and apply that fix. The CVSS score does not change the priority.

Gaps on this record

  • No version range is stored. A customer cannot check an installed version against this record.
Severity
High7.8
Known exploitation
CISA KEV and VulnCheck KEV
EPSS
99.94%
Remediation
Remediation guidance
Affected products
cpe microsoft/office · vendor Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 3, Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 2, Microsoft Office 2013 Service Pack 1, and Microsoft Office 2016 allow an attacker to run arbitrary code in the context of the current user by failing to properly handle objects in memory, aka "Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability". This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2017-11884.

Are you affected?

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  • cpe microsoft/office2007
  • cpe microsoft/office2010
  • cpe microsoft/office2013
  • cpe microsoft/office2016
  • vendor Microsoft Officeversion unspecified

How to fix CVE-2017-11882

What to do

Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.

Should you patch?

CVE-2017-11882 is in the CISA known-exploited catalog, due May 3, 2022. Confirm Microsoft Office against the vendor advisory and apply that fix. The CVSS score does not change the priority.

Which versions are affected?

Compare what you have installed with 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016. Apply updates per vendor instructions.

What should an analyst verify?

CWE-119: Buffer Overflow. EPSS 99.94%. The CISA KEV listing is the exploitation evidence. A public exploit reference is linked in Sources. That is not the same as confirmed exploitation. Use the source links for the original advisory.

Code

The project this record applies to. Exploit listings stay in References.

No public source repository is identified for this product.

Timeline

Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.

  1. Nov 14, 2017 · Catalog

    Detected

    Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 3, Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 2, Microsoft Office 2013 Service Pack 1, and Microsoft Office 2016 allow an attacker to run arbitrary code in the context of the current user by failing to properly handle objects in memory, aka "Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability". This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2017-11884.

  2. Nov 3, 2021 · CISA KEV

    Known exploited

    Apply updates per vendor instructions.

  3. May 3, 2022 · CISA KEV

    Remediation due

    Apply updates per vendor instructions.

  4. Jun 16, 2026 · Catalog

    Updated

    Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 3, Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 2, Microsoft Office 2013 Service Pack 1, and Microsoft Office 2016 allow an attacker to run arbitrary code in the context of the current user by failing to properly handle objects in memory, aka "Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability". This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2017-11884.

Sources

  • CISA KEVConfirmed exploitationCVE-2017-11882

    Microsoft Office contains a memory corruption vulnerability that allows remote code execution in the context of the current user.

    cisa.gov
  • CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2017-11882

    Official CVE identifier

    cve.org
  • FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2017-11882

    30-day exploitation probability 99.9%

    first.org
  • Exploit DatabasePublic exploit reference43163

    Public archive entry. The exploit body is not stored here.

    exploit-db.com
  • Metasploit ModulesPublic exploit moduleexploit_windows/fileformat/office_ms17_11882

    Public module reference (manual). Module source is not copied into this catalog.

    rapid7.com
  • NIST NVDVulnerability recordCVE-2017-11882

    Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 3, Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 2, Microsoft Office 2013 Service Pack 1, and Microsoft Office 2016 allow an attacker to run arbitrary code in the context of the current user by failing to properly handle objects in memory, aka "Microsoft O

    nvd.nist.gov
  • VulnCheck KEVConfirmed exploitationCVE-2017-11882

    Microsoft Office contains a memory corruption vulnerability that allows remote code execution in the context of the current user.

    vulncheck.com

References

Freshness

Last verified in this catalog Oct 17, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.