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CVE-2018-0798

Equation Editor in Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Office 2013, and Microsoft Office 2016 allows a remote code execu

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Listed in CISA KEV
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

The Equation Editor component in Microsoft Office 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2016 is affected. A successful attack could allow an attacker to run arbitrary code on a user's computer through a specially crafted file, because of how the software mishandles objects in memory.

Summarized by anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5. Verify details against the original sources.

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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".

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. Added to CISA KEV

    CISA has evidence of exploitation in the wild

  3. CISA remediation deadline

    Due date for US federal agencies to patch

  4. Record last updated
  5. EPSS reached 10%

    FIRST estimates at least a 10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Affected versions

  • Microsoft Corporation Equation Editor

    Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Office 2013, and Microsoft Office 2016

References 4

securityfocus.com

securitytracker.com

portal.msrc.microsoft.com

0patch.blogspot.com