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Critical MSRC-CVE-2025-21298 1 CVE

Windows OLE Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Published Jan 14, 2025 · Updated Jan 22, 2025 · Revision 2

Summary

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

Details

How could an attacker exploit the vulnerability?
In an email attack scenario, an attacker could exploit the vulnerability by sending the specially crafted email to the victim. Exploitation of the vulnerability might involve either a victim opening a specially crafted email with an affected version of Microsoft Outlook software, or a victim's Outlook application displaying a preview of a specially crafted email . This could result in the attacker executing remote code on the victim's machine.

What is OLE?
Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) is a technology that allows embedding and linking to documents and other objects. For more information please visit: Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) Data Structures.

Security updates
10.0.17763.6775 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5050008
10.0.20348.3091 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5049983
10.0.19044.5371 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5049981
10.0.22621.4751 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5050021
10.0.26100.2894 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5050009
10.0.25398.1369 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5049984
10.0.10240.20890 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5050013
10.0.14393.7699 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5049993
6.0.6003.23070 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5050063
6.0.6003.23070 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5050061
6.1.7601.27520 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5050049
6.1.7601.27520 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5050006
6.2.9200.25273 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5050004
6.3.9600.22371 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5050048

Vulnerabilities 1

Revision history

  1. #2

    Corrected one or more links in the FAQ. This is an informational change only.

  2. #1

    Information published.

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