User-triggered arbitrary code execution
Published Oct 11, 2022 · Updated Jan 2, 2025
Code execution in Microsoft Office Graphics allows attackers to run arbitrary code after a user opens a malicious Office document. Microsoft has not disclosed the graphics-processing locus or the incorrect operation performed on attacker-controlled document content. Exploitation requires user interaction and runs code in the affected user's context; the public record establishes no network service exposure.
Summary
What happened
Code execution in Microsoft Office Graphics allows attackers to run arbitrary code after a user opens a malicious Office document. Microsoft has not disclosed the graphics-processing locus or the incorrect operation performed on attacker-controlled document content. Exploitation requires user interaction and runs code in the affected user's context; the public record establishes no network service exposure.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-38049
- Published
- Oct 11, 2022
- Updated
- Jan 2, 2025
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Microsoft Office 2019
- Classifications
- T1204.002
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Oct 11, 2022CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jan 2, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=19.0.0 <https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
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