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High MSRC-CVE-2026-55121 1 CVE

Microsoft Office Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Published Jul 14, 2026 · Updated Sep 17, 2026 · Revision 3

Summary

Impact: Information Disclosure. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Unlikely. Customer action: Required.

Details

According to the CVSS metrics, successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to some loss of confidentiality (C:L), no loss to integrity (I:N) and lead to some loss of availability (A:L). What is the impact of this vulnerability?
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to access limited sensitive information from system memory and may cause intermittent interruptions or reduced performance in the affected application. However, it would not allow the attacker to modify data.

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.

According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do?
An attacker must send a user a malicious Office file and convince them to open it.

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

Security updates
16.111.26071215 — https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/mac/microsoft-365-for-mac?msockid=35f9adb0e74b61392038b90de6fe608c
16.0.5561.1001 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5002891
16.0.5561.1001 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5002892
16.0.10417.20175 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5002883
16.0.10417.20175 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5002885
https — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/microsoft365-apps-security-updates
16.111.26071215 — https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=831049
16.0.19725.20434 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5002882
16.0.5561.1000 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5002887

Vulnerabilities 1

Revision history

  1. #3

    Updated an acknowledgement. This is an informational change only.

  2. #2

    Updated an acknowledgement. This is an informational change only.

  3. #1

    Information published.

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