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CVE-2021-34501

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-34501 is a Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution vulnerability affecting Microsoft 365 Apps, Excel, Office, and Office Online Server. It carries a high CVSS score of 8.8, indicating a critical threat where an unauthenticated attacker can achieve full compromise with low attack complexity, requiring user interaction. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog and lacking public exploit code in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, notably being addressed in Microsoft's July 2021 Patch Tuesday.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:365_apps:-:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
2013CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:2013:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
2013CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:2013:sp1:*:*:rt:*:*:*
2016CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:2016:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2019CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2019:*:*:*:*:-:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
53.18%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
98.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.5318 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 14,848 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (12)

microsoftpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Office 2019 for 32-bit editionsFixed in: https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Office 2019 for 64-bit editionsFixed in: https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise for 32-bit SystemsFixed in: https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise for 64-bit SystemsFixed in: https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Office 2019 for MacFixed in: 16.51.210711.01
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Office Online ServerFixed in: 16.0.10376.20001
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Excel 2016 (32-bit edition)Fixed in: 16.0.5188.100
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Excel 2016 (64-bit edition)Fixed in: 16.0.5188.1000
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Excel 2013 RT Service Pack 1Fixed in: 15.0.5363.1000
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Excel 2013 Service Pack 1 (32-bit editions)Fixed in: 15.0.5363.1000
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Excel 2013 Service Pack 1 (64-bit editions)Fixed in: 15.0.5363.1000
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2021-Jul/CVE-2021-34501Important

Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Jul 13, 2021

References

portal.msrc.microsoft.com / en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2021-34501
PatchVendor Advisory
zerodayinitiative.com / advisories/ZDI-21-969
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry