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CVE-2017-0261 — Microsoft Office Use-After-Free Vulnerability

provenance: imported · CVE: CVE-2017-0261 · CWE: CWE-416

CVE-2017-0261: Microsoft Office Use-After-Free Vulnerability

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV)

Vendor / project Microsoft
Product Office
Date added 2022-03-03
Due date 2022-03-24
Ransomware campaign use Unknown

Description

Microsoft Office contains a use-after-free vulnerability which can allow for remote code execution.

Required action (CISA)

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Notes

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-0261

Weakness behind it

CISA records this vulnerability as an instance of CWE-416. From there the chain continues into CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques, all inside this corpus.

References

  • NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-0261
  • KEV catalog: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog

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