CVE-2026-55142

MEDIUMPre-NVD 5.55.5
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

Score 5.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-07-14. The CNA's CVSS baseline 5.5; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: the CNA's CVSS, EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory
5.5EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.6%CVSS: 5.5Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

Numeric truncation error in Microsoft Office Word allows an unauthorized attacker to disclose information locally.

CVSS v3
5.5
EG Score
5.5MEDIUMmedium confidence
EG Risk
25
EG Risk 25/100

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)
Severity55% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 5.5 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.6% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at every mission impact level.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (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.
EPSS PROB
0.6%
EPSS %ILE
47th
KEV
Not listed

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

The EG score (5.5): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 5.5 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
5.5 MEDIUMCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.6% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-17). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at every mission impact level.CISA BOD 26-04: 60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at every mission impact level.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (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)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (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

Published

July 14, 2026

Last Modified

October 8, 2026

Advisory Details (1)

Auto-updated Jul 15, 2026
Patch available. Sources: microsoft.
MicrosoftMentions a patch (unverified)

Security Update Guide - Microsoft Security Response Center

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-55142

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-55142(2)

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 8× in last 7d / 50× 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 277 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 177 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-19 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
  2. 2026-10-18 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
  3. 2026-10-18 03:30 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-17 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
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  9. 2026-10-12 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  10. 2026-10-12 15:56 UTCEG score recompute
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  14. 2026-10-11 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  15. 2026-10-10 20:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  16. 2026-10-09 20:07 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  17. 2026-10-08 19:20 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-08 19:20 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-10-08 19:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vm6w-v59c-562f · GitHub CVSS 5.5
  20. 2026-10-08 17:12 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
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  1. 2026-10-02 17:56 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  2. 2026-10-01 19:50 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  3. 2026-10-01 12:57 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-01 12:57 UTCVendor advisory
  5. 2026-10-01 12:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vm6w-v59c-562f · GitHub CVSS 5.5
  6. 2026-09-30 15:03 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
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  8. 2026-09-28 13:51 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  9. 2026-09-28 09:04 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-09-28 09:04 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-09-28 09:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vm6w-v59c-562f · GitHub CVSS 5.5
  12. 2026-09-27 13:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  13. 2026-09-26 15:59 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  14. 2026-09-25 18:43 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-09-25 18:43 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-09-25 18:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vm6w-v59c-562f · GitHub CVSS 5.5
  17. 2026-09-24 14:04 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  18. 2026-09-24 09:06 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-09-24 09:06 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-09-24 09:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vm6w-v59c-562f · GitHub CVSS 5.5
  21. 2026-09-23 17:54 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
  22. 2026-09-23 03:36 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-09-23 03:36 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-09-23 03:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vm6w-v59c-562f · GitHub CVSS 5.5
  25. 2026-09-20 20:16 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
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  27. 2026-09-17 23:01 UTCEG score recompute
  28. 2026-09-17 23:01 UTCVendor advisory
  29. 2026-09-17 23:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vm6w-v59c-562f · GitHub CVSS 5.5
  30. 2026-09-17 19:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
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  34. 2026-09-14 07:25 UTCEG score recompute
  35. 2026-09-14 07:25 UTCVendor advisory
  36. 2026-09-14 07:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vm6w-v59c-562f · GitHub CVSS 5.5
  37. 2026-09-13 16:47 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  38. 2026-09-13 07:43 UTCEG score recompute
  39. 2026-09-13 07:43 UTCVendor advisory
  40. 2026-09-13 07:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vm6w-v59c-562f · GitHub CVSS 5.5
  41. 2026-09-12 01:23 UTCEG score recompute
  42. 2026-09-12 01:23 UTCVendor advisory
  43. 2026-09-12 01:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vm6w-v59c-562f · GitHub CVSS 5.5
  44. 2026-09-11 14:53 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
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  47. 2026-09-09 22:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vm6w-v59c-562f · GitHub CVSS 5.5
  48. 2026-09-08 22:01 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  49. 2026-09-08 21:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vm6w-v59c-562f · GitHub CVSS 5.5
  50. 2026-09-08 20:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vm6w-v59c-562f · GitHub CVSS 5.5
  51. 2026-09-08 01:20 UTCEG score recompute
  52. 2026-09-08 01:20 UTCVendor advisory
  53. 2026-09-08 01:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vm6w-v59c-562f · GitHub CVSS 5.5
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  56. 2026-09-05 22:34 UTCEG score recompute
  57. 2026-09-05 22:34 UTCVendor advisory
  58. 2026-09-05 22:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vm6w-v59c-562f · GitHub CVSS 5.5
  59. 2026-09-04 22:49 UTCEG score recompute
  60. 2026-09-04 22:49 UTCVendor advisory
  61. 2026-09-04 22:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vm6w-v59c-562f · GitHub CVSS 5.5
  62. 2026-09-04 05:06 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  63. 2026-09-02 19:43 UTCEG score recompute
  64. 2026-09-02 19:43 UTCVendor advisory
  65. 2026-09-02 19:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vm6w-v59c-562f · GitHub CVSS 5.5
  66. 2026-09-02 14:12 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
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  69. 2026-08-31 15:45 UTCVendor advisory
  70. 2026-08-31 15:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vm6w-v59c-562f · GitHub CVSS 5.5
  71. 2026-08-31 04:47 UTCEG score recompute
  72. 2026-08-31 04:47 UTCVendor advisory
  73. 2026-08-31 04:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vm6w-v59c-562f · GitHub CVSS 5.5
  74. 2026-08-30 19:17 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  75. 2026-08-30 04:33 UTCEG score recompute

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-55142?
CVE-2026-55142 is a medium-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on July 14, 2026. Numeric truncation error in Microsoft Office Word allows an unauthorized attacker to disclose information locally.
When was CVE-2026-55142 made public?
CVE-2026-55142 was made public on July 14, 2026: 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 July 14, 2026. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 8, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-55142 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-55142 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (47th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-55142?
CVE-2026-55142 has a CVSS base score of 5.5 (the CNA's own assessment, by microsoft; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-55142?
A fix for CVE-2026-55142 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-55142 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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