CVE-2025-54896 is a high-severity use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Office Excel, affecting Microsoft 365 Apps, Excel, Office, Office LTSC, and Office Online Server. An attacker could exploit this locally with low complexity, requiring user interaction, to achieve high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not currently in the KEV catalog and with no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), it has garnered limited community discussion and media coverage, including a mention in a BleepingComputer article regarding a future Patch Tuesday. Its EPSS score is low, suggesting a low probability of exploitation in the wild.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:365_apps:-:*:*:*:enterprise:*:x64:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:365_apps:-:*:*:*:enterprise:*:x86:* | ||
2016CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:2016:*:*:*:*:*:x64:* | ||
2016CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:2016:*:*:*:*:*:x86:* | ||
2019CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2019:*:*:*:*:*:x64:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.