Home

Description

Untrusted pointer dereference in Microsoft Office Word allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code locally.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-12-04 | Published 2026-01-13 | Updated 2026-02-22 | Assigner microsoft




HIGH: 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Problem types

CWE-822: Untrusted Pointer Dereference

Product status

16.0.1 (custom) before https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
affected

19.0.0 (custom) before https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
affected

16.0.1 (custom) before https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
affected

16.0.0 (custom) before https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
affected

16.0.1 (custom) before 16.105.26011018
affected

16.0.0 (custom) before 16.105.26011018
affected

16.0.0 (custom) before 16.0.5535.1001
affected

16.0.0 (custom) before 16.0.10417.20083
affected

16.0.1 (custom) before 16.0.5535.1000
affected

References

msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-20948 (Microsoft Word Remote Code Execution Vulnerability) vendor-advisory patch

cve.org (CVE-2026-20948)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-20948)

Download JSON