CVE•Published 2018-02-15•Modified 2026-10-15•1 article on news•5 live references•NVD data
CVE-2018-0851Microsoft · Office
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
8.8
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
97
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 3% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
Microsoft Office 2007 SP2, Microsoft Office Word Viewer, Microsoft Office 2010 SP2, Microsoft Office 2013 SP1 and RT SP1, Microsoft Office 2016, and Microsoft Office 2016 Click-to-Run (C2R) allow a remote code execution vulnerability, due to how Office handles objects in memory, aka "Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability". This CVE is unique from CVE-2018-0852.
Timeline
Published 2018-02-15
Modified 2026-10-15
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
Shodan · vuln tag0 hosts
vuln:CVE-2018-0851Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.
Shodan · product + version
product:"Microsoft Office" version:"2007"Version-pinned fingerprint from NVD's first vulnerable CPE.
Shodan · banner/body mention
http.html:"Office"HTTP body or banner mentions "Office" — catches deploys Shodan didn't identify as a product.
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2018-0851Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2018-0851Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2018-0851Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2018-0851GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2018-0851" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.