Microsoft Office Word Reliance on Untrusted Inputs in a Security Decision Vulnerability

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office Word contains a reliance on untrusted inputs in a security decision vulnerability that could allow an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally. Added to CISA KEV on 2026-02-10 (federal deadline 2026-03-03).

First seen: 10 Feb 2026
Last update: 10 Feb 2026, 12:00 UTC
Identifiers: CVE-2026-21514
Source: CISA KEV
On the menu as: Microsoft Office

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## Microsoft Office Word Reliance on Untrusted Inputs in a Security Decision Vulnerability
Severity: high, exploited in the wild. Patch status: patched.
Affected: Microsoft Office
Ids: CVE-2026-21514

Microsoft Office Word contains a reliance on untrusted inputs in a security decision vulnerability that could allow an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally. Added to CISA KEV on 2026-02-10 (federal deadline 2026-03-03).

## Steps
1. This touches infrastructure (office). Look in terraform, ansible, cloud-init, Dockerfiles and docs for the product and version we run. If it isn't in the repo, say so and list what a human should check on the box.

## Report
A table: file, product or package, version in use, affected yes/no, exact fix. Then anything a human has to check outside the repo.

If you have the pwned.coffee MCP server (https://pwned.coffee/mcp), call lookup_cve("CVE-2026-21514") for the latest, and check_repo with this repo's lockfiles, Dockerfiles and workflows for a full receipt.
Sources: https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-21514 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-21514
https://pwned.coffee/i/microsoft-office-word-reliance-on-untrusted-inputs-in-a-cve-2026-21514

Sources

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