CVE-2026-55048

Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

At a glance

Severity
HIGH 7.8
EPSS
EPSS 0.47 % · percentile 40 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
microsoft
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

Integer overflow or wraparound in Microsoft Office Excel allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code locally.

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:Cmicrosoft
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · secure@microsoft.com (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Microsoft · Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterpriseaffected 16.0.1 < https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
Microsoft · Microsoft Excel 2016affected 16.0.0.0 < 16.0.5561.1001
Microsoft · Microsoft Office 2019affected 19.0.0 < https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
Microsoft · Microsoft Office 365 for Macaffected 1.0.0 < 16.111.26071215
Microsoft · Microsoft Office LTSC 2021affected 16.0.1 < https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
Microsoft · Microsoft Office LTSC 2024affected 16.0.0 < https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
Microsoft · Microsoft Office LTSC for Mac 2021affected 16.0.1 < 16.111.26071215
Microsoft · Microsoft Office LTSC for Mac 2024affected 16.0.0 < 16.111.26071215
Microsoft · Office Online Serveraffected 16.0.0.0 < 16.0.10417.20175

References

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD