cve analysis

Microsoft’s CVE entry for CVE-2025-59223 describes a Microsoft Excel vulnerability as “Remote Code Execution” while the CVSS vector marks the Attack Vector as Local (AV:L) — those two statements are not contradictory but address different questions: the CVE title communicates what an attacker...

The short answer is: the word Remote in the CVE title describes the attacker’s position and the delivery path, while the CVSS Attack Vector AV:L describes where the exploit actually executes — on the victim’s local machine — and the two are complementary, not contradictory. Background / Overview...

Microsoft’s advisory wording that CVE-2025-59225 is a “Remote Code Execution” vulnerability is not a contradiction with its CVSS Attack Vector of AV:L (Local) — the two statements describe different aspects of the threat: one describes the attacker’s position and delivery capability, the other...

Microsoft’s CVE naming can look contradictory at a glance: a Microsoft Office entry labeled “Remote Code Execution” while its CVSS vector reads AV:L (Local). That apparent mismatch is not a mistake — it’s a product of two separate, sensible conventions colliding: one is a vendor‑level...

Microsoft’s advisory language calling CVE-2025-59231 a “remote code execution” vulnerability is not a clerical error — it’s a deliberate phrasing that describes the attacker’s position and delivery method, not the exact runtime location where exploited code executes; in practice the exploit...