How severe is CVE-2018-0798?

CVE-2018-0798 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 8.8 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 95.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2018-0798: Microsoft Office Memory Corruption

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2021-11-03

Remediation due

2022-05-03

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-0798

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".

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA8.8 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/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	Equation Editor	Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Office 2013, and Microsoft Office 2016

References

4 Links

Vulnerability databases

Other references

Record Details

Published

2018-01-10

Last updated

2025-10-21

Assigner (CNA)

microsoft

Credited to

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