Remote code execution
Published Jan 12, 2021 · Updated Oct 8, 2024
Remote code execution in Microsoft Word allows context-dependent attackers to execute code after a user interacts with malicious content. Microsoft has not published the affected parser, file feature, or incorrect operation that processes the content. Successful exploitation requires user interaction and runs code in the security context of the affected Word or server-side Office process.
Summary
What happened
Remote code execution in Microsoft Word allows context-dependent attackers to execute code after a user interacts with malicious content. Microsoft has not published the affected parser, file feature, or incorrect operation that processes the content. Successful exploitation requires user interaction and runs code in the security context of the affected Word or server-side Office process.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2021-1716
- Published
- Jan 12, 2021
- Updated
- Oct 8, 2024
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Microsoft Office 2019
- Classifications
- T1204.002
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jan 12, 2021CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Oct 8, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=19.0.0 <https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
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