Summary
Impact: Remote Code Execution. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do?
A user needs to be tricked into running malicious files.
Is the Preview Pane an attack vector for this vulnerability?
No, the Preview Pane is not an attack vector.
Security updates
16.52.21080801 — https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=831049
https — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/office365-proplus-security-updates
Vulnerabilities 1
-
High 7.8
Microsoft Word Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Microsoft Word Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Revision history
-
#1
Information published.
References
-
CVE-2021-36941 Microsoft Word Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2021-36941
-
Microsoft Exploitability Index
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/exploitability-index?rtc=1
-
Microsoft Support Lifecycle
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle
-
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
https://www.first.org/cvss