How severe is CVE-2017-8570?

CVE-2017-8570 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.8 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 89.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2017-8570: Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2022-02-25

Remediation due

2022-08-25

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8570

Description

Microsoft Office allows a remote code execution vulnerability due to the way that it handles objects in memory, aka "Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability". This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2017-0243.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA7.8 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableno

Technical impacttotal

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
Microsoft Corporation	Microsoft Office 2007 SP3, Microsoft Office 2010 SP2, Microsoft Office 2013 SP1, and Microsoft Office 2016.	Microsoft Office

References

5 Links

Vulnerability databases

99445

Other references

Record Details

Published

2017-07-11

Last updated

2025-10-21

Assigner (CNA)

microsoft

Credited to

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