CVE-2026
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Released: Sep 8, 2026
Please see Common Vulnerability Scoring System for more information on the definition of these metrics.
Insufficiently protected credentials in Microsoft Office allows an unauthorized attacker to perform spoofing over a network.
The following table provides an exploitability assessment for this vulnerability at the time of original publication.
According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do?
A user interacting with the file in multiple ways will cause the NTLM hash to be leaked. A few interactions which trigger this leak include:
Opening the parent folder in Explorer
Clicking the file (any mouse button)
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