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CVE-2017-0194

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-0194 is an information disclosure vulnerability affecting Microsoft Excel 2007 SP3, Excel 2010 SP2, and Office Compatibility Pack SP2, allowing remote attackers to extract sensitive data from process memory using specially crafted Office documents. Rated Medium (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L) for successful exploitation, leading to high confidentiality impact (C:H). Despite a high FAUCET Risk Score of 94/100 and an EPSS score indicating higher exploitability than most CVEs, there is no public exploit code available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB. While it has received some community discussion and media coverage, it is not listed in the KEV catalog and is considered inactive.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2007CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:2007:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
2010CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:2010:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_compatibility_pack:*:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
25.52%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.2552 is in the 100th percentile among its peer group of 5,760 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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

Media Mentions

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

microsoftpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack Service Pack 2
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Excel 2007 Service Pack 3
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Excel 2010 Service Pack 2 (32-bit editions)
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Excel 2010 Service Pack 2 (64-bit editions)
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2017-Apr/CVE-2017-0194Important

Microsoft Excel Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Apr 11, 2017

References

portal.msrc.microsoft.com / en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2017-0194
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/97436
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1038244