November 3, 2021 · Applied Cybernetics Group
CVE-2015-1641 — Microsoft Office
Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability
- Added to KEV
2021-11-03- Federal due date
2022-05-03- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Office
- EPSS
- 99.9th percentile (score 0.937, as of
2026-06-08) - NVD CVSS v3.1
- —
- Ransomware use
- Unknown
- Upstream
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-1641
CISA short description
Microsoft Office contains a memory corruption vulnerability due to failure to properly handle rich text format files in memory. Successful exploitation allows for remote code execution in the context of the current user.
Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.