Summary
Impact: Information Disclosure. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
What type of information could be disclosed by this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could potentially read small portions of heap memory.
Is the Preview Pane an attack vector for this vulnerability?
Yes, the Preview Pane is an attack vector.
Security updates
https — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/microsoft365-apps-security-updates
16.0.14334.20974 — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/microsoft365-apps-security-updates
Vulnerabilities 1
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Medium 6.5
Microsoft Office Word Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Out-of-bounds read in Microsoft Office Word allows an unauthorized attacker to disclose information over a network.
Revision history
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#1
Information published.
References
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CVE-2026-102867 Microsoft Office Word Information Disclosure Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-102867
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Microsoft Exploitability Index
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/exploitability-index?rtc=1
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Microsoft Support Lifecycle
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle
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Common Vulnerability Scoring System
https://www.first.org/cvss