Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-21361

High

Published: 14 January 2025

Published
14 January 2025
Modified
17 January 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0052 66.8th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Description

Microsoft Outlook Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Security Summary

CVE-2025-21361 is a Remote Code Execution vulnerability affecting Microsoft Outlook. Published on 2025-01-14, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.8 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H) and is associated with CWE-641 and NVD-CWE-noinfo.

Exploitation requires local access to the target system, low attack complexity, no special privileges, and user interaction. A local attacker could leverage this to execute arbitrary code, resulting in high impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability on the affected system.

The Microsoft Security Response Center provides details on mitigation and patches in its update guide at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-21361.

Details

CWE(s)
CWE-641NVD-CWE-noinfo

Affected Products

microsoft
office
2021, 2024
microsoft
outlook
≤ 16.93

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