CVE-2026-40367
high
CVSS v3
8.4
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
8.4
Description
<p>Untrusted pointer dereference in Microsoft Office Word allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code locally.</p>
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
80%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| windows | affected | |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| microsoft | 365_apps | - | |
| microsoft | office | 2019 | |
| microsoft | office_long_term_servicing_channel | 2021 | |
| microsoft | office_long_term_servicing_channel | 2024 | |
| microsoft | sharepoint_server | {"endExcluding":"16.0.19725.20280"} | 16.0.19725.20280 |
| microsoft | sharepoint_server | 2016 | |
| microsoft | sharepoint_server | 2019 | |
| microsoft | word | 2016 | |
References
CWEs
CWE-822
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.