CVE-2025-54899 (GCVE-0-2025-54899)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-09-09 17:00
Modified
2025-09-12 00:48
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-590 - Free of Memory not on the Heap
Summary
Free of memory not on the heap in Microsoft Office Excel allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code locally.
References
| ▼ | URL | Tags | |
|---|---|---|---|
| secure@microsoft.com | https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-54899 | Vendor Advisory |
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▼ | Microsoft | Microsoft Office 2019 |
Version: 19.0.0 < https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases |
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