Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-112720 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-112720 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-112720?
- Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 5.5, published 10 November 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Microsoft Office Word.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-112720?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2026-112720 attacked?
- It is attacked with local access, in a web application.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-112720?
- Check whether you run Microsoft Office Word. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
An out-of-bounds read vulnerability in Microsoft Office Word allows an attacker with local access to read data from memory outside of intended boundaries. The vulnerability affects Word's document processing logic and requires the attacker to have local system access to trigger the flaw. Successful exploitation results in information disclosure of potentially sensitive data in memory, but does not enable code execution or privilege escalation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Office Word
Timeline
- 2026-11-10: disclosed