CVE-2016-7275 Privilege escalation in n/a

What is CVE-2016-7275?

CVE-2016-7275 is a high-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Office, published on 20 Dec 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Microsoft Office 2010 SP2, 2013 SP1, 2013 RT SP1, and 2016 mishandles library loading, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka "Microsoft Office OLE DLL Side Loading Vulnerability."

Weakness: CWE-264, CWE-19

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-7275?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Microsoft Office.

How do I fix CVE-2016-7275?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-7275 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2016-7275 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-7275 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office

• CVE-2018-0798 Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2015-1770 Microsoft Office Uninitialized Memory Use Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2006-2492 Microsoft Word Malformed Object Pointer Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2018-0802 Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2017-11882 Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Exploited High 7.8

All Microsoft Office vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-w8vw-phcw-9mh5.