A library injection vulnerability exists in Microsoft Word 16.83 for macOS. A specially crafted library can leverage Word's access privileges, leading to a permission bypass. A malicious application could inject a library and start the program to trigger this vulnerability and then make use of the vulnerable application's permissions.
Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2024-38899 A library injection vulnerability exists in Microsoft Word 16.83 for macOS. A specially crafted library can leverage Word's access privileges, leading to a permission bypass. A malicious application could inject a library and start the program to trigger this vulnerability and then make use of the vulnerable application's permissions.
Fixes

Solution

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Workaround

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History

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 21:45:00 +0000

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CPEs cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:word:16.83:*:*:*:*:macos:*:*

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00136}

epss

{'score': 0.00154}


Fri, 20 Dec 2024 18:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Wed, 18 Dec 2024 23:45:00 +0000


Wed, 18 Dec 2024 23:00:00 +0000

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Description A library injection vulnerability exists in Microsoft Word 16.83 for macOS. A specially crafted library can leverage Word's access privileges, leading to a permission bypass. A malicious application could inject a library and start the program to trigger this vulnerability and then make use of the vulnerable application's permissions.
Weaknesses CWE-347
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: talos

Published:

Updated: 2024-12-20T17:32:16.315Z

Reserved: 2024-08-05T20:37:13.148Z

Link: CVE-2024-41165

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-12-18T23:03:03.010Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-12-18T23:15:08.300

Modified: 2025-08-22T21:35:17.167

Link: CVE-2024-41165

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2025-07-12T22:44:56Z