Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessGain local access to affected Office host
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DeliveryCraft or manipulate Office document
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ExploitTrigger improper access-control check (CWE-284)
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ExecutionSpoof trusted content or origin
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ImpactMislead victim / bypass integrity assurance
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Access control enforcement
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Defense Evasion The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires local access to a system running an affected build (Office LTSC for Mac 2021/2024 or Excel/Word for Android below the fixed versions) - the vector is AV:L, so it is not remotely reachable over a network. Within that constraint no privileges (PR:N) and no user interaction (UI:N) are needed. Limiting factors: the attacker must already have a local foothold on the device, only the listed macOS and Android Office products are affected (Windows Office is out of scope), and a pre-fix version must be installed; patched builds close the vector entirely. |
| Impact | The signals are consistent and point to modest real-world urgency. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N, base 7.7) indicates local exploitation requiring no privileges and no user interaction, with high confidentiality and integrity impact and no availability impact. CISA SSVC reinforces low priority: Exploitation=none and Automatable=no, though Technical Impact=total. EPSS is 0.04% (13th percentile), there is no KEV listing, and no public exploit is identified, so this is not a mass-exploitation candidate. One conflict worth flagging: the human-readable description labels the impact 'spoofing,' yet the CVSS vector encodes C:H/I:H (total technical impact) - the 7.7 score is driven by that C:H/I:H rating, so treat the 'total impact' framing as broader than the plain 'spoofing' label and verify the concrete impact against Microsoft's advisory before prioritizing. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker able to act locally on a device running a vulnerable Office build manipulates an Office document so that its content or source is presented to the victim as legitimate, exploiting the improper access-control check to spoof trusted content. Per the CVSS vector no elevated privileges or user interaction are required. No public proof-of-concept exists at time of analysis. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Jul 23, 2026
Spoofing in Microsoft Office (Office LTSC for Mac 2021/2024 and Excel/Word for Android) lets an attacker with local access bypass access-control checks (CWE-284) to misrepresent content or its origin to a user. Microsoft has issued a patch; there is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and EPSS is very low (0.04%, 13th percentile), so this is a low-likelihood but high-technical-impact issue.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: update Office LTSC for Mac 2021 and 2024 to build 16.109.26051019 or later, and update Excel for Android and Word for Android to 16.0.19822.20190 or later, per the Microsoft advisory at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-42832. On macOS this ships through Microsoft AutoUpdate and on Android through the Google Play Store, so ensuring automatic updates are enabled resolves it fleet-wide. Because exploitation requires local access, an interim compensating control is to restrict opening of untrusted documents and to limit local and shared-device access to affected installs until the update propagates; this narrows exposure but does not close the underlying access-control gap. Additional advisory context: https://vuldb.com/vuln/363230 and https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-42832.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The flaw is an improper access control weakness (CWE-284) in the Office application layer rather than in a network protocol. Per the CPE data, the affected code lives in the Office document-handling engines shipped in Excel for Android, Word for Android, and the macOS Office LTSC 2021/2024 builds - the cross-platform Office codebase, not the Windows click-to-run channel. CWE-284 means the software fails to properly restrict an actor from a resource or action; here that gap is exercised locally and manifests as spoofing, allowing content or provenance to be presented as trustworthy when it is not.
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Severity by source
AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
AV:L because the source vector is local-only; PR:N/UI:N as no auth or interaction is indicated; C:H/I:H with A:N matching a spoofing/access-control impact having no availability effect.
Primary rating from NVD.
CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionCVE.org
Improper access control in Microsoft Office allows an unauthorized attacker to perform spoofing locally.
Executive ViewAI
Microsoft Office on Mac (LTSC 2021/2024) and Excel/Word for Android contain a spoofing vulnerability (CVE-2026-42832) that allows local attackers to bypass access controls and misrepresent document content or origin to users. The vulnerability requires device-level access and presents a medium risk to organizations with substantial Mac and mobile Office deployments. Microsoft has released a patch; exploitation likelihood is extremely low (0.04th percentile EPSS) despite high technical severity.
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
Priority Score
Attack Technique
Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.
EUVD-2026-29712
GHSA-857p-384w-97mc
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