November 17, 2021 · Applied Cybernetics Group
CVE-2021-42292 — Microsoft Office
Microsoft Excel Security Feature Bypass
- Added to KEV
2021-11-17- Federal due date
2021-12-01- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Office
- EPSS
- 98.1th percentile (score 0.319, as of
2026-07-13) - NVD CVSS v3.1
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- Ransomware use
- Unknown
- Upstream
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-42292
CISA short description
A security feature bypass vulnerability in Microsoft Excel would allow a local user to perform arbitrary code execution.
Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.