Microsoft security update for CVE-2026-118720
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products10
- Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise for 32-bit Systems
- Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise for 64-bit Systems
- Microsoft Office 365 for Mac
- Microsoft Office LTSC 2021 for 32-bit editions
- Microsoft Office LTSC 2021 for 64-bit editions
- Microsoft Office LTSC 2024 for 32-bit editions
- Microsoft Office LTSC 2024 for 64-bit editions
- Microsoft Office LTSC for Mac 2021
- Microsoft Office LTSC for Mac 2024
- Office Online Server
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 5 updates
5 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | 16.115.26110837 |
| — | Security Update | 16.0.10417.20236 |
| — | Security Update | 16.0.14334.21048 |
| — | Security Update | 16.0.17932.21140 |
| — | Security Update | release notes |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2026-118720
- EchelonGraph score
- 8.8 HIGH
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
Stack-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Office Excel allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code over a network.
Published by Microsoft Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2026-118720, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).
🔗 References (6)
- advisoryhttps://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-118720
- patchhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/release-notes-office-for-mac
- patchhttps://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=108899
- referencehttps://support.microsoft.com/help/5002946
- referencehttps://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/microsoft365-apps-security-updates
- referencehttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/microsoft365-apps-security-updates