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1 vulnerability found for Microsoft Office Deployment Tool by Microsoft
CVE-2026-20943 (GCVE-0-2026-20943)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-13 17:56 – Updated: 2026-02-22 17:01
VLAI?
Title
Microsoft Office Click-To-Run Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Summary
Untrusted search path in Microsoft Office allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code locally.
Severity ?
CWE
- CWE-426 - Untrusted Search Path
Assigner
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Impacted products
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| Microsoft | Microsoft Office 2016 |
Affected:
16.0.0 , < 16.0.5535.1000
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