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Source: microsoft · Limited verification•Last verified: •Collection Running
CVE-2018-0851Unknown / EvaluatingHIGH (raw)CVSS 9.3CWE-787

Microsoft Office 2007 SP2, Microsoft Office Word Viewer, Microsoft Office 2010 SP2, Microsoft Office 2013 SP1 and RT SP1, Microsoft Office 2016, and Microsoft Office 2016 Click-to-Run (C2R) allow a remote code execution vulnerability, due to how Office handles objects in memory, aka "Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability"

Published: 15 Feb 2018•Last updated: 15 Oct 2026, 11:47 PM IST•Source identifier: secure@microsoft.com
Dossier completeness: source-provided sections 2 / 3 · rule guidance not available. Missing source facts count as incomplete.
Official source
CISA KEV catalog
Unknown
KEV status was not determined.
CVSS score
9.3HIGH (raw)
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Metric sourcenvd@nist.gov
EPSS probability
19.1%0.191
Percentile97th
Weakness type
CWE-787
No further CWE recorded
Remediation
Patch status unknown
No fixed version or KB recorded

Why It Matters

Analysis dossier

Why It Matters

Microsoft Office 2007 SP2, Microsoft Office Word Viewer, Microsoft Office 2010 SP2, Microsoft Office 2013 SP1 and RT SP1, Microsoft Office 2016, and Microsoft Office 2016 Click-to-Run (C2R) allow a remote code execution vulnerability, due to how Office handles objects in memory, aka "Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability". This CVE is unique from CVE-2018-0852.

SOC priority

High

Actively exploited

Unknown

Publicly disclosed

Unknown

Risk basis: Microsoft or Microsoft-managed product relevance; HIGH severity; No confirmed exploitation signal in current enrichment

Affected Products & Remediation

3 source-backed products
Affected products and versions (source)
  • microsoft office · 2007; 2016 · NVD CPE · Source
  • microsoft office word viewer · version range not provided by source · NVD CPE · Source
  • microsoft outlook · 2010; 2013; 2016 · NVD CPE · Source
Recorded patch / KBNot provided by source

Vendor or catalog guidance (source)

Not provided by source

Known exploitation (source facts)

Only what a source states. Unknown means no source has said either way; it is not "not exploited".

CISA KEV
Unknown
Exploited (source statement)
Unknown
Publicly disclosed (source)
Unknown

Suggested hunting (rule-based inference)

SecOps Signal recommendation (rule-based inference). These steps are hunting hypotheses from the vulnerability class; they do not state or imply that exploitation occurred here or anywhere.

No rule-based guidance for this vulnerability class

CISA KEV Record

CISA KEV status was not determined for this record.

Change History & Source Data

— No recorded material change

CNA / source
secure@microsoft.com
Record status · verification
UPDATED · Microsoft primary source linked
CPE
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2007:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2016:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2016:*:*:*:click-to-run:*:*:*, cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_word_viewer:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:outlook:2010:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*, cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:outlook:2013:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*, cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:outlook:2013:sp1:*:*:*:rt:*:*, cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:outlook:2016:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Evidence & Provenance

2 public sources
portal.msrc.microsoft.comSource recordnvd.nist.govSource record

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Detection Hunting Query
Target: DeviceTvmSoftwareVulnerabilities•Defender XDR
Detect endpoints exposed to CVE-2018-0851
Purpose: Exposure assessment (Category: Exposure Check)Why linked: Query metadata names CVE-2018-0851
DeviceTvmSoftwareVulnerabilities| where CveId == "CVE-2018-0851"| project DeviceId, DeviceName, OSPlatform, OSVersion, SoftwareVendor, SoftwareName, SoftwareVersion, CveId, VulnerabilitySeverityLevel, RecommendedSecurityUpdate, RecommendedSecurityUpdateId| sort by VulnerabilitySeverityLevel desc
Schema Checked · Not runtime validatedSource: SecOps Signal deterministic template · Limited verificationStatic screening: Passed structure and schema checks; tenant execution is not verified.
Open KQL Library

Correlated briefings

— No published briefing references this CVE

SecOps Signal surfaces public advisory facts only. A missing value means the source has not published it, not that your environment is unaffected. No tenant inventory is connected.