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CVE-2017-0261 Unmapped

Microsoft Office Use-After-Free Vulnerability

Vendor / product
Microsoft — Office
Description (CISA)
Microsoft Office contains a use-after-free vulnerability which can allow for remote code execution.
Added to KEV
2022-03-03
Due date
2022-03-24
Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Known ransomware use
Unknown
CWE
CWE-416
CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-0261
Elsewhere
cve.org · NVD · CISA KEV · JSON

ATT&CK techniques

No public source states how this vulnerability is exploited in ATT&CK terms.

The only authoritative CVE → ATT&CK mapping in the open — CTID's Mappings Explorer, pinned to a KEV snapshot of 2025-07-28 and ATT&CK 16.1 — does not include CVE-2017-0261. CISA's catalogue carries no technique field. kevmap does not infer techniques from the CWE (CWE-416) — here is why — and does not guess.

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Sigma rules tagged with this CVE

1 rule in SigmaHQ carries the tag cve.2017-0261. These are shown as detection content for the CVE itself. Their ATT&CK tags are deliberately not rendered here: a rule author's tag is not an authoritative statement of how the vulnerability is exploited, and this page does not show techniques for unmapped entries.

Author: Florian Roth (Nextron Systems) · 2018-02-22 (modified 2021-11-27) · logsource: product=windows category=process_creation · 864403a1-36c9-40a2-a982-4c9a45f7d833
Detects Winword starting uncommon sub process FLTLDR.exe as used in exploits for CVE-2017-0261 and CVE-2017-0262
CVE tags: CVE-2017-0261