Code execution via use-after-free memory access
Published Jan 14, 2025 · Updated Jun 9, 2026
Use-after-free in Microsoft Excel allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via content processed on the local system. Microsoft identifies freed-object reuse in Excel but has not disclosed the affected parser, object lifetime error, or content element that triggers it. No privileges or user interaction are required once local processing begins, and successful exploitation executes code in the affected process.
Summary
What happened
Use-after-free in Microsoft Excel allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via content processed on the local system. Microsoft identifies freed-object reuse in Excel but has not disclosed the affected parser, object lifetime error, or content element that triggers it. No privileges or user interaction are required once local processing begins, and successful exploitation executes code in the affected process.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-21362
- Published
- Jan 14, 2025
- Updated
- Jun 9, 2026
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Microsoft Office LTSC for Mac 2024
- Classifications
- CWE-416
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Jan 14, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jun 9, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=16.0.0 <16.93.25011212
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