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CVE Number Vulnerability Product Severity Date
CVE-2026-20957 Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Microsoft 365, Microsoft Office Critical 29-01-2026

Technical Information

An unauthenticated attacker could trigger arbitrary code execution by enticing a user to open a maliciously crafted file, exploiting an integer underflow and heap-based buffer overflow to execute code locally.

Patch release date: Jan 13, 2026
Further information on this vulnerability is available at : CVE-2026-20957

Affected Software

Office Online Server,
Microsoft Office 2019 for 32-bit editions,
Microsoft Office 2019 for 64-bit editions,
Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise for 32-bit Systems,
Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise for 64-bit Systems,
Microsoft Office LTSC for Mac 2021,
Microsoft Office LTSC 2021 for 64-bit editions,
Microsoft Office LTSC 2021 for 32-bit editions,
Microsoft Office LTSC 2024 for 32-bit editions,
Microsoft Office LTSC 2024 for 64-bit editions,
Microsoft Office LTSC for Mac 2024,
Microsoft Excel 2016 (32-bit edition),
Microsoft Excel 2016 (64-bit edition)