CVE-2018-0798 (GCVE-0-2018-0798)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-01-10 01:00 – Updated: 2025-10-21 23:45
VLAI?
Summary
Equation Editor in Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Office 2013, and Microsoft Office 2016 allows a remote code execution vulnerability due to the way objects are handled in memory, aka "Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability".
Severity ?
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Remote Code Execution
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Microsoft Corporation Equation Editor Affected: Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Office 2013, and Microsoft Office 2016
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