Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2022-26901

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-26901 is a Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability affecting various Microsoft Office and Excel products, including Microsoft 365 Apps. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (HIGH), it requires user interaction (UI:R) for exploitation, likely through a malicious file, but once triggered, it can lead to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H). While not currently listed in CISA's KEV catalog or having public exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness within the cybersecurity community. Its EPSS score is low, suggesting a low probability of exploitation in the wild.

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:*:*:-:*:*:*
2016CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:2016:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2013CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel_rt:2013:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
2013CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2013:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.58%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0258 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 11,616 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 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 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (18)

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Office 2019 for MacFixed in: 16.60.22041000
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Office LTSC for Mac 2021Fixed in: 16.60.22041000
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Office Online ServerFixed in: 16.0.10385.20001
View patch
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 LTSC 2021 for 64-bit editionsFixed in: https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Office LTSC 2021 for 32-bit editionsFixed in: https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Excel 2016 (32-bit edition)Fixed in: 16.0.5305.1000
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Excel 2016 (64-bit edition)Fixed in: 16.0.5305.1000
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Office 2016 (32-bit edition)Fixed in: 16.0.5305.1000
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Office 2016 (64-bit edition)Fixed in: 16.0.5305.1000
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Excel 2013 RT Service Pack 1Fixed in: 15.0.5441.1000
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Excel 2013 Service Pack 1 (32-bit editions)Fixed in: 15.0.5441.1000
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Excel 2013 Service Pack 1 (64-bit editions)Fixed in: 15.0.5441.1000
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Office 2013 RT Service Pack 1Fixed in: 15.0.5441.1000
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Office 2013 Service Pack 1 (32-bit editions)Fixed in: 15.0.5441.1000
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Office 2013 Service Pack 1 (64-bit editions)Fixed in: 15.0.5441.1000
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Office Web Apps Server 2013 Service Pack 1Fixed in: 15.0.5441.1000
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2022-Apr/CVE-2022-26901Important

Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Apr 12, 2022

References

msrc.microsoft.com / update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-26901