Summary
Impact: Remote Code Execution. Microsoft rating: Critical. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
Is the Preview Pane an attack vector for this vulnerability?
Yes, the Preview Pane is an attack vector.
According to the CVSS metric, the attack vector is network (AV:N) and user interaction is required (UI:R). What is the target context of the remote code execution?
This attack requires a user to open a specially crafted file from the attacker to initiate remote code execution.
Security updates
16.0.10417.20207 — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/microsoft365-apps-security-updates
16.0.20326.20138 — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/office365-proplus-security-updates
16.0.5569.1000 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5002916
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 8.8
Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Heap-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Office allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code over a network.
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2026-69285 Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-69285
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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