CVE-2018-0798

State: Published
Severity: 8.8 High
Published: Jan 10, 2018
Updated: Oct 21, 2025
Reserved: Dec 1, 2017

Description

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".

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Equation EditorMicrosoft Corporation	Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Office 2013, and Microsoft Office 2016Affected

References

102370vdb-entry
1040153vdb-entry
https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2018-0798
https://0patch.blogspot.com/2018/01/bringing-abandoned-equation-editor-back.html
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2018-0798government-resource

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