High 1 exploited CVE MSRC-CVE-2021-38646 1 CVE

Microsoft Office Access Connectivity Engine Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Published Sep 14, 2021 · Updated Sep 14, 2021

Vendor: Microsoft

Summary

Impact: Remote Code Execution. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.

Details

Is the Preview Pane an attack vector for this vulnerability?
No, the Preview Pane is not an attack vector.

Security updates
https — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/microsoft365-apps-security-updates
5215.1000 — https://support.microsoft.com/kb/5001997
5381.1000 — https://support.microsoft.com/kb/5001958

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.8

CVE-2021-38646 Exploited · Ransomware

Microsoft Office Access Connectivity Engine Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Microsoft Office Access Connectivity Engine Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Microsoft Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise Microsoft Office 2019 Microsoft Office 2016

Sep 15, 2021
KEV Mar 28, 2022

Revision history

2021-09-14 #1
Information published.

References

CVE-2021-38646 Microsoft Office Access Connectivity Engine Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2021-38646
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