CVE-2018-0802

high

Description

Equation Editor in Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Office 2013, and Microsoft Office 2016 allow a remote code execution vulnerability due to the way objects are handled in memory, aka "Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability". This CVE is unique from CVE-2018-0797 and CVE-2018-0812.

References

https://github.com/zldww2011/CVE-2018-0802_POC

https://securelist.com/vulnerabilities-and-exploits-in-q2-2025/117333/

https://securelist.com/vulnerabilities-and-exploits-in-q1-2025/116624/

https://securelist.com/vulnerabilities-and-exploits-in-q4-2024/115761/

https://securelist.com/cloud-atlas-attacks-with-new-backdoor-vbcloud/115103/

https://securelist.com/exploits-and-vulnerabilities-q3-2024/114839/

https://securelist.com/vulnerability-exploit-report-q2-2024/113455/

https://www.tenable.com/cyber-exposure/tenable-2022-threat-landscape-report

https://www.anomali.com/blog/multiple-chinese-threat-groups-exploiting-cve-2018-0798-equation-editor-vulnerability-since-late-2018

https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2022/05/bitter-apt-adds-bangladesh-to-their.html

https://www.uptycs.com/blog/confucius-apt-deploys-warzone-rat

https://vb2020.vblocalhost.com/uploads/VB2020-06.pdf

https://securelist.com/cactuspete-apt-groups-updated-bisonal-backdoor/97962/

https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2020/03/bisonal-10-years-of-play.html

https://documents.trendmicro.com/assets/pdf/Operation-ENDTRADE-TICK-s-Multi-Stage-Backdoors-for-Attacking-Industries-and-Stealing-Classified-Data.pdf

https://securelist.com/recent-cloud-atlas-activity/92016/

https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2019/06/government-in-central-asia-targeted-with-hawkball-backdoor.html

https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/unit42-inception-attackers-target-europe-year-old-office-vulnerability/

https://symantec-enterprise-blogs.security.com/blogs/threat-intelligence/inception-framework-hiding-behind-proxies

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https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/18/b/deciphering-confucius-cyberespionage-operations.html

https://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2016/11/unit42-tropic-trooper-targets-taiwanese-government-and-fossil-fuel-provider-with-poison-ivy/

https://www.forcepoint.com/blog/x-labs/bitter-targeted-attack-against-pakistan

https://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/tick-cyberespionage-group-zeros-japan

https://securelist.com/cloud-atlas-redoctober-apt-is-back-in-style/68083/

https://www.tenable.com/blog/analyzing-the-vulnerabilities-associated-with-the-top-malware-strains-of-2021

https://research.checkpoint.com/another-office-equation-rce-vulnerability/

https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2018-0802

https://github.com/rxwx/CVE-2018-0802

https://0patch.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-bug-that-killed-equation-editor-how.html

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040153

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102347

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-01-10

Updated: 2025-03-26

Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV)

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 9.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.94103