Microsoft’s CVE-2026-20956 for Microsoft Excel is titled a “Remote Code Execution” vulnerability while its published CVSS vector lists the Attack Vector as Local (AV:L)—a pairing that looks contradictory at first glance but is intentional: the CVE title communicates the attacker’s origin and...
A newly disclosed memory-corruption flaw in Microsoft Word—tracked as CVE-2025-53784—has been classified as a use-after-free vulnerability that can allow an attacker to execute code locally when a victim opens or previews a specially crafted document. Microsoft’s Security Update Guide lists this...
Microsoft has published a security advisory for CVE-2025-53730, a use‑after‑free vulnerability in Microsoft Office Visio that Microsoft describes as allowing an unauthorized attacker to execute code locally when a specially crafted Visio file is opened. Background
Microsoft Visio is a widely...