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CVE-2025-27747:
vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
A use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Office Word (CVE-2025-27747) was disclosed on April 8, 2025. This vulnerability affects Microsoft Word 2016 and SharePoint Server 2019, allowing an unauthorized attacker to execute code locally (NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.8 (HIGH) with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H. The vulnerability is classified as CWE-822 (Untrusted Pointer Dereference) (NVD).
Impact
If exploited, this vulnerability allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code locally on the affected system, potentially leading to complete system compromise with high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts (NVD).
Mitigation and workarounds
Microsoft has released security updates to address this vulnerability. Users can obtain the updates through Microsoft Update, Microsoft Update Catalog, or Microsoft Download Center. For Word 2016, the security update KB5002702 is available, and for SharePoint Server 2019, updates KB5002691 and KB5002680 should be installed (Microsoft Support).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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