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CVE-2025-29792

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2025-29792 is a use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 Apps that allows a local, authenticated attacker to achieve privilege escalation. With a CVSS score of 7.3 (HIGH), successful exploitation could lead to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, requiring user interaction to trigger. While a zero-day exploit was mentioned in media coverage, there is currently no public exploit code available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, and it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog. Community discussion and media coverage indicate some awareness of this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:365_apps:-:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
2016CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2016:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2019CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2019:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2021CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_long_term_servicing_channel:2021:*:*:*:*:-:*:*
2024CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_long_term_servicing_channel:2024:*:*:*:*:-:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.3HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.3
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.06%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
61.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0106 is in the 87th percentile among its peer group of 759 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.2 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (11)

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Office 2016 (64-bit edition)Fixed in: 16.0.5495.1002
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 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 Office LTSC 2024 for 32-bit editionsFixed in: https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Office LTSC 2024 for 64-bit editionsFixed in: https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Office 2016 (32-bit edition)Fixed in: 16.0.5495.1002
View patch
microsoftvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2025-Apr/CVE-2025-29792Important

Microsoft Office Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Apr 8, 2025

References

msrc.microsoft.com / update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-29792
Vendor Advisory