CVE-2017-11882

CRITICALNVD 7.89.0
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

“▲” beside the score: it is higher than NVD's CVSS score.

Score elevated to 9.0 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2021-11-03), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 7.8 retained for reference. The 9.0 is the floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: this CVE's impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 7.8 HIGH under GitHub Security Advisory CVSS. Confidence: HIGH.

Triggered by: CISA KEV (actively exploited)
Sources: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 3 sources updated this weekExploited in the wild

Also known asEUVD-2017-3478 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-vjph-m3mp-rqj5 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.0EG
EchelonGraph verdictPatch nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV) — the reason this is sooner than the SSVC decision on this page at low or medium mission impact
CISA-KEV: ExploitedEPSS PROB: 99.9%CVSS: 7.8Exploit: Metasploit · other public PoCExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 3, Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 2, Microsoft Office 2013 Service Pack 1, and Microsoft Office 2016 allow an attacker to run arbitrary code in the context of the current user by failing to properly handle objects in memory, aka "Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability". This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2017-11884.

CVSS v3
7.8
EG Score
9.0CRITICALhigh confidence
EG Risk
75
EG Risk 75/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity78% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 7.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation100% × 40%
Fixed at 100% for a CISA KEV listing: EchelonGraph's rule.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.
Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact.
EPSS PROB
99.9%
EPSS %ILE
99th
KEV
⚠ Exploited

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.0): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.0 is the CISA KEV floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: its impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 7.8 HIGH.

EG Severity
7.8 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
99.9% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-31). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
CISA KEV and EG-KEV Tier 1 (exploited in the wild)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Attend at medium mission impactTrack at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact.

Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV yes (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

CISA required action“Apply updates per vendor instructions.”

Quoted verbatim from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. CISA directs it at US federal civilian executive branch agencies under Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04, which replaced BOD 22-01 on 10 June 2026; it is not EchelonGraph's advice. CISA's notes: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-11882

Published

November 15, 2017

Last Modified

June 17, 2026

Advisory Details (10)

Auto-updated Nov 2, 2026
⚠️ Actively exploited (CISA KEV, CISA Vulnrichment). Patch available. Sources: microsoft.
Microsoft

Security Update Guide - Microsoft Security Response Center

https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2017-11882
Web page

GitHub - rip1s/CVE-2017-11882: CVE-2017-11882 Exploit accepts over 17k bytes long command/code in maximum. · GitHub

https://github.com/unamer/CVE-2017-11882
Web page🟡 PoC Available

GitHub - rxwx/CVE-2017-11882: Proof-of-Concept exploits for CVE-2017-11882 · GitHub

https://github.com/rxwx/CVE-2017-11882
Web page🟡 PoC Available

GitHub - embedi/CVE-2017-11882: Proof-of-Concept exploits for CVE-2017-11882 · GitHub

https://github.com/embedi/CVE-2017-11882
Web page

GitHub - 0x09AL/CVE-2017-11882-metasploit: This is a Metasploit module which exploits CVE-2017-11882 using the POC released here : https://embedi.com/blog/skeleton-closet-ms-office-vulnerability-you-didnt-know-about. · GitHub

https://github.com/0x09AL/CVE-2017-11882-metasploit
Web page

PSIRT.COM — Product Security Incident Response Team

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101757
Web page

0patch Blog: Microsoft's Manual Binary Patch For CVE-2017-11882 Meets 0patch

https://0patch.blogspot.com/2017/11/official-patch-for-cve-2017-11882-meets.html
Web page

0patch Blog: Did Microsoft Just Manually Patch Their Equation Editor Executable? Why Yes, Yes They Did. (CVE-2017-11882)

https://0patch.blogspot.com/2017/11/did-microsoft-just-manually-patch-their.html

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2017-11882(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 18× in last 7d / 175× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 1,797 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 1,697 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-01 13:48 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-11-01 13:48 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-11-01 13:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vjph-m3mp-rqj5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  4. 2026-10-31 14:41 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-31 14:41 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-10-31 14:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vjph-m3mp-rqj5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  7. 2026-10-30 15:34 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-10-30 15:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vjph-m3mp-rqj5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  9. 2026-10-29 16:28 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-29 16:28 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-10-29 16:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vjph-m3mp-rqj5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  12. 2026-10-28 17:21 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-28 17:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vjph-m3mp-rqj5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  14. 2026-10-27 18:12 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-27 18:12 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-10-27 18:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vjph-m3mp-rqj5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  17. 2026-10-26 19:05 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-26 19:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vjph-m3mp-rqj5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  19. 2026-10-25 19:56 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-10-25 19:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vjph-m3mp-rqj5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  21. 2026-10-25 19:40 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-10-25 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99.9% · 99th percentile
  23. 2026-10-24 20:49 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-10-24 20:49 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-10-24 20:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vjph-m3mp-rqj5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  1. 2026-10-23 21:42 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-23 21:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vjph-m3mp-rqj5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  3. 2026-10-22 22:34 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-22 22:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vjph-m3mp-rqj5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  5. 2026-10-21 23:27 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-21 23:27 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-10-21 23:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vjph-m3mp-rqj5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  8. 2026-10-21 00:19 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-21 00:19 UTCVendor advisory
  10. 2026-10-21 00:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vjph-m3mp-rqj5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  11. 2026-10-20 01:11 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-20 01:11 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-10-20 01:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vjph-m3mp-rqj5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  14. 2026-10-19 02:01 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-19 02:01 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-10-19 02:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vjph-m3mp-rqj5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  17. 2026-10-18 10:41 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-18 02:52 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-10-18 02:52 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-10-18 02:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vjph-m3mp-rqj5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  21. 2026-10-17 03:44 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-10-17 03:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vjph-m3mp-rqj5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  23. 2026-10-16 04:36 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-10-16 04:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vjph-m3mp-rqj5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  25. 2026-10-15 05:29 UTCEG score recompute
  26. 2026-10-15 05:29 UTCVendor advisory
  27. 2026-10-15 05:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vjph-m3mp-rqj5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  28. 2026-10-14 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99.9% · 99th percentile
  29. 2026-10-14 06:19 UTCEG score recompute
  30. 2026-10-14 06:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vjph-m3mp-rqj5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  31. 2026-10-13 07:11 UTCVendor advisory
  32. 2026-10-13 07:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vjph-m3mp-rqj5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  33. 2026-10-12 20:35 UTCEG score recompute
  34. 2026-10-12 08:02 UTCVendor advisory
  35. 2026-10-12 08:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vjph-m3mp-rqj5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  36. 2026-10-12 04:20 UTCVendor advisory
  37. 2026-10-12 04:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vjph-m3mp-rqj5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  38. 2026-10-12 00:38 UTCVendor advisory
  39. 2026-10-12 00:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vjph-m3mp-rqj5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  40. 2026-10-11 20:57 UTCEG score recompute
  41. 2026-10-11 20:57 UTCVendor advisory
  42. 2026-10-11 20:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vjph-m3mp-rqj5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  43. 2026-10-11 17:15 UTCEG score recompute
  44. 2026-10-11 17:15 UTCVendor advisory
  45. 2026-10-11 17:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vjph-m3mp-rqj5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  46. 2026-10-11 13:34 UTCEG score recompute
  47. 2026-10-11 13:34 UTCVendor advisory
  48. 2026-10-11 13:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vjph-m3mp-rqj5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  49. 2026-10-11 09:50 UTCVendor advisory
  50. 2026-10-11 09:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vjph-m3mp-rqj5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  51. 2026-10-11 06:08 UTCVendor advisory
  52. 2026-10-11 06:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vjph-m3mp-rqj5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  53. 2026-10-11 02:27 UTCVendor advisory
  54. 2026-10-11 02:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vjph-m3mp-rqj5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  55. 2026-10-10 22:46 UTCVendor advisory
  56. 2026-10-10 22:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vjph-m3mp-rqj5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  57. 2026-10-10 19:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vjph-m3mp-rqj5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  58. 2026-10-10 15:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vjph-m3mp-rqj5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  59. 2026-10-10 11:39 UTCVendor advisory
  60. 2026-10-10 11:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vjph-m3mp-rqj5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  61. 2026-10-10 07:58 UTCVendor advisory
  62. 2026-10-10 07:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vjph-m3mp-rqj5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  63. 2026-10-10 04:17 UTCVendor advisory
  64. 2026-10-10 04:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vjph-m3mp-rqj5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  65. 2026-10-10 00:35 UTCVendor advisory
  66. 2026-10-10 00:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vjph-m3mp-rqj5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  67. 2026-10-09 20:54 UTCVendor advisory
  68. 2026-10-09 20:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vjph-m3mp-rqj5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  69. 2026-10-09 17:12 UTCVendor advisory
  70. 2026-10-09 17:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vjph-m3mp-rqj5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  71. 2026-10-09 13:31 UTCVendor advisory
  72. 2026-10-09 13:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vjph-m3mp-rqj5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  73. 2026-10-09 09:49 UTCVendor advisory
  74. 2026-10-09 09:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vjph-m3mp-rqj5 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  75. 2026-10-09 06:07 UTCVendor advisory

Publicly available exploits

(12 references, 10 shown)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Metasploit module, 1 Exploit-DB entry, 10 GitHub PoCs). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.

  • Metasploitexploit/windows/fileformat/office_ms17_11882✓ verified
    Published Dec 8, 2017

    Microsoft Office CVE-2017-11882

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCRetr0-code/SignHere
    Published Jan 25, 2021

    SignHere is implementation of CVE-2017-11882. SignHere is builder of malicious rtf document and VBScript payloads.

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoClikekabin/CVE-2018-0802_CVE-2017-11882
    Published Jan 16, 2018
    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCRidter/RTF_11882_0802
    Published Jan 12, 2018

    PoC for CVE-2018-0802 And CVE-2017-11882

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCrxwx/CVE-2018-0802
    Published Jan 11, 2018

    PoC Exploit for CVE-2018-0802 (and optionally CVE-2017-11882)

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCstarnightcyber/CVE-2017-11882
    Published Nov 22, 2017

    CVE-2017-11882 exploitation

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoC0x09AL/CVE-2017-11882-metasploit
    Published Nov 21, 2017

    This is a Metasploit module which exploits CVE-2017-11882 using the POC released here : https://embedi.com/blog/skeleton-closet-ms-office-vulnerability-you-didnt-know-about.

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCBlackMathIT/2017-11882_Generator
    Published Nov 21, 2017

    CVE-2017-11882 File Generator PoC

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCRidter/CVE-2017-11882
    Published Nov 21, 2017

    CVE-2017-11882 from https://github.com/embedi/CVE-2017-11882

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCrip1s/CVE-2017-11882
    Published Nov 21, 2017

    CVE-2017-11882 Exploit accepts over 17k bytes long command/code in maximum.

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2017-11882?
CVE-2017-11882 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on November 15, 2017. Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 3, Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 2, Microsoft Office 2013 Service Pack 1, and Microsoft Office 2016 allow an attacker to run arbitrary code in the context of the current user by failing to properly handle objects in memory, aka "Microsoft Office Memory…
When was CVE-2017-11882 made public?
CVE-2017-11882 was made public on November 14, 2017: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, Microsoft Corporation, gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on November 15, 2017. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of June 17, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2017-11882 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2017-11882 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on November 3, 2021, affecting Microsoft Office. KEV listing indicates confirmed exploitation in the wild; this CVE warrants immediate attention. A fix is available. Apply it.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2017-11882?
CVE-2017-11882 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8 (NVD). EchelonGraph synthesises NVD + CISA KEV + FIRST EPSS + GHSA into a combined EG score of 9.0 (CRITICAL).
Which products are affected by CVE-2017-11882?
CVE-2017-11882 affects Microsoft Office.
How do I remediate CVE-2017-11882?
A fix for CVE-2017-11882 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2017-11882 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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