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URL: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-11882

⇱ NVD - CVE-2017-11882

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CVE-2017-11882 Detail

Description

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.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://reversingminds-blog.logdown.com/posts/3907313-fileless-attack-in-word-without-macros-cve-2017-11882 CVE, Microsoft Corporation Exploit  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101757 CVE, Microsoft Corporation Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039783 CVE, Microsoft Corporation Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://0patch.blogspot.com/2017/11/did-microsoft-just-manually-patch-their.html CVE, Microsoft Corporation Exploit  Third Party Advisory 
https://0patch.blogspot.com/2017/11/official-patch-for-cve-2017-11882-meets.html CVE, Microsoft Corporation Exploit  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/0x09AL/CVE-2017-11882-metasploit CVE, Microsoft Corporation Exploit  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/embedi/CVE-2017-11882 CVE, Microsoft Corporation Exploit  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/rxwx/CVE-2017-11882 CVE, Microsoft Corporation Exploit  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/unamer/CVE-2017-11882 CVE, Microsoft Corporation Exploit  Third Party Advisory 
https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2017-11882 CVE, Microsoft Corporation Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2017/12/unit42-analysis-of-cve-2017-11882-exploit-in-the-wild/ CVE, Microsoft Corporation Exploit  Third Party Advisory 
https://web.archive.org/web/20181104111128/https://embedi.com/blog/skeleton-closet-ms-office-vulnerability-you-didnt-know-about/ CVE, Microsoft Corporation Exploit  Mitigation  Third Party Advisory 
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2017-11882 CISA-ADP US Government Resource 
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43163/ CVE, Microsoft Corporation Exploit  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/421280 CVE, Microsoft Corporation Third Party Advisory  US Government Resource 

This CVE is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

Reference CISA's BOD 22-01 and Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog for further guidance and requirements.

Vulnerability Name Date Added Due Date Required Action
Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability 11/03/2021 05/03/2022 Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer 👁 cwe source acceptance level
NIST   CISA-ADP  

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Change History

24 change records found show changes

CVE Modified by CISA-ADP 6/16/2026 9:02:31 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added SSVC 
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CVE Modified by Microsoft Corporation 6/16/2026 9:02:31 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Affected 
[{"vendor":"Microsoft Corporation","product":"Microsoft Office","versions":[{"version":"Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 3, Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 2, Microsoft Office 2013 Service Pack 1, Microsoft Office 2016","status":"affected"}]}]

Modified Analysis by NIST 4/22/2026 9:48:45 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Reference Type 
CISA-ADP: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2017-11882 Types: US Government Resource

CVE Modified by CISA-ADP 10/21/2025 8:16:02 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Reference 
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2017-11882

CVE Modified by CISA-ADP 10/21/2025 4:16:47 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Removed Reference 
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2017-11882

CVE Modified by CISA-ADP 10/21/2025 3:17:03 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Reference 
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2017-11882

Modified Analysis by NIST 4/07/2025 4:38:31 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value

CVE Modified by CISA-ADP 2/10/2025 3:15:39 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added CVSS V3.1 
AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Added CWE 
CWE-119

CVE Modified by CVE 11/20/2024 10:08:40 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Reference 
http://reversingminds-blog.logdown.com/posts/3907313-fileless-attack-in-word-without-macros-cve-2017-11882
Added Reference 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101757
Added Reference 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039783
Added Reference 
https://0patch.blogspot.com/2017/11/did-microsoft-just-manually-patch-their.html
Added Reference 
https://0patch.blogspot.com/2017/11/official-patch-for-cve-2017-11882-meets.html
Added Reference 
https://github.com/0x09AL/CVE-2017-11882-metasploit
Added Reference 
https://github.com/embedi/CVE-2017-11882
Added Reference 
https://github.com/rxwx/CVE-2017-11882
Added Reference 
https://github.com/unamer/CVE-2017-11882
Added Reference 
https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2017-11882
Added Reference 
https://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2017/12/unit42-analysis-of-cve-2017-11882-exploit-in-the-wild/
Added Reference 
https://web.archive.org/web/20181104111128/https://embedi.com/blog/skeleton-closet-ms-office-vulnerability-you-didnt-know-about/
Added Reference 
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43163/
Added Reference 
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/421280

CVE Modified by Microsoft Corporation 5/14/2024 12:17:28 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value

Modified Analysis by NIST 3/16/2021 1:21:45 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added CVSS V3.1 
NIST AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Removed CVSS V3 
NIST AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Changed Reference Type 
https://web.archive.org/web/20181104111128/https://embedi.com/blog/skeleton-closet-ms-office-vulnerability-you-didnt-know-about/ No Types Assigned


 
https://web.archive.org/web/20181104111128/https://embedi.com/blog/skeleton-closet-ms-office-vulnerability-you-didnt-know-about/ Exploit, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory

CVE Modified by Microsoft Corporation 1/26/2021 1:15:24 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Reference 
https://web.archive.org/web/20181104111128/https://embedi.com/blog/skeleton-closet-ms-office-vulnerability-you-didnt-know-about/ [No Types Assigned]
Removed Reference 
https://embedi.com/blog/skeleton-closet-ms-office-vulnerability-you-didnt-know-about [Broken Link]

Modified Analysis by NIST 5/02/2019 2:32:24 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Changed Reference Type 
http://reversingminds-blog.logdown.com/posts/3907313-fileless-attack-in-word-without-macros-cve-2017-11882 Third Party Advisory


 
http://reversingminds-blog.logdown.com/posts/3907313-fileless-attack-in-word-without-macros-cve-2017-11882 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Changed Reference Type 
https://0patch.blogspot.com/2017/11/did-microsoft-just-manually-patch-their.html Third Party Advisory


 
https://0patch.blogspot.com/2017/11/did-microsoft-just-manually-patch-their.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Changed Reference Type 
https://0patch.blogspot.com/2017/11/official-patch-for-cve-2017-11882-meets.html Third Party Advisory


 
https://0patch.blogspot.com/2017/11/official-patch-for-cve-2017-11882-meets.html Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Changed Reference Type 
https://embedi.com/blog/skeleton-closet-ms-office-vulnerability-you-didnt-know-about Technical Description, Third Party Advisory


 
https://embedi.com/blog/skeleton-closet-ms-office-vulnerability-you-didnt-know-about Broken Link
Changed Reference Type 
https://github.com/rxwx/CVE-2017-11882 No Types Assigned


 
https://github.com/rxwx/CVE-2017-11882 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Changed Reference Type 
https://github.com/unamer/CVE-2017-11882 No Types Assigned


 
https://github.com/unamer/CVE-2017-11882 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Changed Reference Type 
https://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2017/12/unit42-analysis-of-cve-2017-11882-exploit-in-the-wild/ No Types Assigned


 
https://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2017/12/unit42-analysis-of-cve-2017-11882-exploit-in-the-wild/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Changed Reference Type 
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43163/ Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry


 
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43163/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

CVE Modified by Microsoft Corporation 12/30/2017 9:29:01 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Reference 
https://github.com/rxwx/CVE-2017-11882 [No Types Assigned]

CVE Modified by Microsoft Corporation 12/11/2017 9:29:00 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Reference 
https://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2017/12/unit42-analysis-of-cve-2017-11882-exploit-in-the-wild/ [No Types Assigned]

CVE Modified by Microsoft Corporation 12/05/2017 9:29:06 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Reference 
https://github.com/unamer/CVE-2017-11882 [No Types Assigned]

Initial Analysis by NIST 12/05/2017 7:32:50 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added CVSS V3 
AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Added CVSS V2 
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Added CWE 
CWE-119
Added CPE Configuration 
OR
 *cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2007:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
 *cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2010:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
 *cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2013:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
 *cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2016:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Changed Reference Type 
http://reversingminds-blog.logdown.com/posts/3907313-fileless-attack-in-word-without-macros-cve-2017-11882 No Types Assigned


 
http://reversingminds-blog.logdown.com/posts/3907313-fileless-attack-in-word-without-macros-cve-2017-11882 Third Party Advisory
Changed Reference Type 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101757 No Types Assigned


 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101757 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Changed Reference Type 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039783 No Types Assigned


 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039783 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Changed Reference Type 
https://0patch.blogspot.com/2017/11/did-microsoft-just-manually-patch-their.html No Types Assigned


 
https://0patch.blogspot.com/2017/11/did-microsoft-just-manually-patch-their.html Third Party Advisory
Changed Reference Type 
https://0patch.blogspot.com/2017/11/official-patch-for-cve-2017-11882-meets.html No Types Assigned


 
https://0patch.blogspot.com/2017/11/official-patch-for-cve-2017-11882-meets.html Third Party Advisory
Changed Reference Type 
https://embedi.com/blog/skeleton-closet-ms-office-vulnerability-you-didnt-know-about No Types Assigned


 
https://embedi.com/blog/skeleton-closet-ms-office-vulnerability-you-didnt-know-about Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
Changed Reference Type 
https://github.com/0x09AL/CVE-2017-11882-metasploit No Types Assigned


 
https://github.com/0x09AL/CVE-2017-11882-metasploit Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Changed Reference Type 
https://github.com/embedi/CVE-2017-11882 No Types Assigned


 
https://github.com/embedi/CVE-2017-11882 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Changed Reference Type 
https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2017-11882 No Types Assigned


 
https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2017-11882 Patch, Vendor Advisory
Changed Reference Type 
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43163/ No Types Assigned


 
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43163/ Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Changed Reference Type 
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/421280 No Types Assigned


 
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/421280 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource

CVE Modified by Microsoft Corporation 12/04/2017 9:29:03 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Reference 
http://reversingminds-blog.logdown.com/posts/3907313-fileless-attack-in-word-without-macros-cve-2017-11882 [No Types Assigned]

CVE Modified by Microsoft Corporation 11/28/2017 9:29:07 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Reference 
https://0patch.blogspot.com/2017/11/official-patch-for-cve-2017-11882-meets.html [No Types Assigned]

CVE Modified by Microsoft Corporation 11/22/2017 9:29:00 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Reference 
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43163/ [No Types Assigned]

CVE Modified by Microsoft Corporation 11/21/2017 9:29:02 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Reference 
https://github.com/0x09AL/CVE-2017-11882-metasploit [No Types Assigned]
Added Reference 
https://github.com/embedi/CVE-2017-11882 [No Types Assigned]

CVE Modified by Microsoft Corporation 11/17/2017 9:29:02 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Reference 
https://0patch.blogspot.com/2017/11/did-microsoft-just-manually-patch-their.html [No Types Assigned]

CVE Modified by Microsoft Corporation 11/16/2017 9:29:01 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Reference 
https://embedi.com/blog/skeleton-closet-ms-office-vulnerability-you-didnt-know-about [No Types Assigned]
Added Reference 
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/421280 [No Types Assigned]

CVE Modified by Microsoft Corporation 11/15/2017 9:29:04 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Reference 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101757 [No Types Assigned]
Added Reference 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039783 [No Types Assigned]

Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2017-11882
NVD Published Date:
11/14/2017
NVD Last Modified:
06/16/2026
Source:
Microsoft Corporation