Summary
Impact: Information Disclosure. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Unlikely. 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?
No, the Preview Pane is not an attack vector.
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.
Security updates
16.0.5569.1000 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5002923
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
Vulnerabilities 1
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Medium 5.5
Microsoft Office Word Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Buffer over-read in Microsoft Office Word allows an unauthorized attacker to disclose information locally.
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2026-83951 Microsoft Office Word Information Disclosure Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-83951
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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