Palo Alto Networks

CVE-2018-0802

Traps Prevents Microsoft Office Equation Editor Zero-Day CVE-2018-0802

Last November, Microsoft manually patched a remotely exploitable vulnerability (CVE-2017-11882) in Equation Editor, which is a program that lets you write a mathematical equation into a document. Our Unit 42 research team provided a detailed analysis on this vulnerability here.

Since then, Microsoft has received additional reports from multiple security vendors that turned out to be related to another vulnerability that was s...

Jan 19, 2018

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