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High MSRC-CVE-2025-53737 1 CVE

Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Published Aug 12, 2025 · Updated Oct 16, 2025 · Revision 2

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, the attack vector is local (AV:L). Why does the CVE title indicate that this is a remote code execution?
The word Remote in the title refers to the location of the attacker. This type of exploit is sometimes referred to as Arbitrary Code Execution (ACE). The attack itself is carried out locally.
For example, when the score indicates that the Attack Vector is Local and User Interaction is Required, this could describe an exploit in which an attacker, through social engineering, convinces a victim to download and open a specially crafted file from a website which leads to a local attack on their computer.

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

Security updates
16.0.10417.20034 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5002752
https — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/microsoft365-apps-security-updates
16.100.25081015 — https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=831049
16.0.5513.1000 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5002758

Vulnerabilities 1

Revision history

  1. #2

    Revised the packages to include Download Center ID for this vulnerability.

  2. #1

    Information published.

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