High MSRC-CVE-2021-38655 1 CVE

Microsoft Excel 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
16.53.21091200 — https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=831049
10378.20000 — https://support.microsoft.com/kb/5001999
5215.1000 — https://support.microsoft.com/kb/5002003
5381.1000 — https://support.microsoft.com/kb/5002014
5381.1000 — https://support.microsoft.com/kb/5002009

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.8

CVE-2021-38655

Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

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

Sep 15, 2021

Revision history

2021-09-14 #1
Information published.

References

CVE-2021-38655 Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2021-38655
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