Widely used Office app; high-severity RCE risk with potential operational impact.
CVE-2026-47635
Office type confusion enables local code execution.
Is CVE-2026-47635 being exploited?
Not confirmed. CVE-2026-47635 does not appear in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, which records only exploitation that has been observed and reported publicly. That is evidence of absence of a report, not evidence the flaw is unattacked. EPSS currently estimates a 0.33% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.
How severe is CVE-2026-47635?
CVE-2026-47635 is rated High with a CVSS score of 8.4. Severity describes how bad exploitation would be, not how likely it is: pair it with exploitation evidence before deciding what to patch first.
Is there a patch for CVE-2026-47635?
Yes. A fix has been recorded for CVE-2026-47635. The vendor advisory is the authority on the exact fixed version — apply it from there rather than from a summary.
What does CVE-2026-47635 affect?
CVE-2026-47635 affects Microsoft Office. Confirm the exact affected versions against the vendor advisory before deciding you are exposed.
What should I do about CVE-2026-47635?
Patch Office to latest security update.
Exploitation status reflects CISA's KEV catalog as we last synced it. Check the catalog directly.
Local arbitrary code execution via Microsoft Office resource access type confusion; attacker could run code on the victim host.
Patch when possible
- affected>= 16.0.0 and < https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
As published in the CVE Program record. A version outside these ranges is not a statement that it is unaffected — vendors sometimes understate a range, and distribution-backported builds carry upstream numbers that do not reflect what was patched into them.