CVE-2017-0197 Code injection in Office

What is CVE-2017-0197?

CVE-2017-0197 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Microsoft Corporation Office, published on 12 Apr 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Microsoft OneNote 2007 SP3 and Microsoft OneNote 2010 SP2 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted document, aka "Microsoft Office DLL Loading Vulnerability."

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-0197?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Microsoft Onenote.

How do I fix CVE-2017-0197?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-0197 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2017-0197 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-0197 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Corporation Office

• CVE-2014-2815 Code injection in n/a High 8.8
• CVE-2024-41159 Privilege escalation in OneNote High 7.1
• CVE-2023-33140 Microsoft OneNote Spoofing Vulnerability Medium 6.5
• CVE-2023-21721 Microsoft OneNote Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Medium 6.5
• CVE-2016-3315 Information disclosure in n/a Medium 5.5

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-gcvm-v83h-fhq2.