CVE-2024-41165: Microsoft Word

Critical severity, CVSS 9.1. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A library injection vulnerability exists in Microsoft Word 16.83 for macOS. A specially crafted library can leverage Word's access privileges, leading to a permission bypass. A malicious application could inject a library and start the program to trigger this vulnerability and then make use of the vulnerable application's permissions.

Affected products

• Microsoft Word: version 16.83 only

Published 2024-12-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.