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CVSS VectorVendor: microsoft
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
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Out-of-bounds read in Microsoft Office allows an unauthorized attacker to disclose information locally.
AnalysisAI
Out-of-bounds read in Microsoft Office and SharePoint Server exposes low-level memory contents to a local attacker when a victim opens a crafted document. Affected products span Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise, Office 2016/2019/LTSC 2021/2024, Office for Mac variants, and SharePoint Server 2016/2019/Subscription Edition - all at version 16.0.x baselines. The CVSS score of 3.3 (Low) reflects constrained impact: confidentiality is only partially affected, integrity and availability are untouched, and exploitation requires both local access and user interaction. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, and the vulnerability is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Technical ContextAI
CWE-125 (Out-of-Bounds Read) describes a class of memory safety flaw where a parsing or processing routine reads beyond the boundary of an allocated memory buffer, returning data from adjacent memory regions that may contain sensitive content such as stack canaries, heap metadata, or application state. The 'Buffer Overflow' tag in the EUVD entry is technically imprecise - CWE-125 is a read-only overreach, not a write overflow (CWE-122); this distinction is material because OOB reads are generally not directly exploitable for code execution. The vulnerability resides in the Microsoft Office document processing layer, common to 16.0.x builds of desktop Office (365 Apps, 2016, 2019, LTSC 2021/2024), Office for Mac (365, LTSC 2021/2024), and Microsoft SharePoint Server (2016, 2019, Subscription Edition). The breadth across SharePoint suggests the affected parsing component may be a shared Office library used both by client apps and server-side document rendering.
RemediationAI
Apply vendor-released patches available through the Microsoft Security Response Center advisory at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-45485. For Microsoft Office 2016 and SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016, update to build 16.0.5556.1005 or later. For SharePoint Server 2019, update to 16.0.10417.20153 or later. For SharePoint Server Subscription Edition, update to 16.0.19725.20384 or later. For Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise, Office 2019, Office LTSC 2021, and Office LTSC 2024, apply the latest updates via the Office release channel at https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases; specific build numbers for these products are not enumerated in the available data. For Microsoft Office and LTSC for Mac variants (365, 2021, 2024), consult the same release page, as specific fix builds were not enumerated. Given the local-only, user-interaction-required attack vector and low severity, this patch can typically be scheduled within normal monthly patching cycles rather than as an emergency deployment. No documented workaround is available that would fully mitigate the underlying OOB read without applying the patch.
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EUVD-2026-35653
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