CVE record · CVE-2019-0541

Command injection in Microsoft Office and others

CVSS 8.8 HighCriticalIn CISA KEVEPSS 0.53 · 98th percentile

Critical, because:

In CISA’s KEV catalogue since 3 Nov 2021: it is known to be exploited.
CVSS score 8.8 (7.0 or more) and EPSS 0.53 (0.1 or more): a high score and a real chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: microsoft) at 8 Jan 2019, 21:00 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Microsoft	Microsoft Office	affected 2010 Service Pack 2 (32-bit editions) affected 2010 Service Pack 2 (64-bit editions) affected 2013 RT Service Pack 1 affected 2013 Service Pack 1 (32-bit editions) affected 2013 Service Pack 1 (64-bit editions) affected 2016 (32-bit edition) affected 2016 (64-bit edition) affected 2019 for 32-bit editions affected 2019 for 64-bit editions
Microsoft	Microsoft Office Word Viewer	affected Microsoft Office Word Viewer
Microsoft	Internet Explorer 9	affected Windows Server 2008 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 2 affected Windows Server 2008 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 2
Microsoft	Internet Explorer 11	affected Windows 10 for 32-bit Systems affected Windows 10 for x64-based Systems affected Windows 10 Version 1607 for 32-bit Systems affected Windows 10 Version 1607 for x64-based Systems affected Windows 10 Version 1703 for 32-bit Systems affected Windows 10 Version 1703 for x64-based Systems affected Windows 10 Version 1709 for 32-bit Systems affected Windows 10 Version 1709 for ARM64-based Systems affected Windows 10 Version 1709 for x64-based Systems affected Windows 10 Version 1803 for 32-bit Systems affected Windows 10 Version 1803 for ARM64-based Systems affected Windows 10 Version 1803 for x64-based Systems and 12 more
Microsoft	Microsoft Excel Viewer	affected 2007 Service Pack 3
Microsoft	Internet Explorer 10	affected Windows Server 2012
Microsoft	Office	affected 365 ProPlus for 32-bit Systems affected 365 ProPlus for 64-bit Systems

Identifiers: CVE-2019-0541
CNA: microsoft
Weakness (CWE): CWE-77
Tags: Microsoft Office
Microsoft Office Word Viewer
Microsoft Internet Explorer 9
Microsoft Internet Explorer 11
Microsoft Excel Viewer
Microsoft Internet Explorer 10
Command injection
Published: 8 Jan 2019
Updated: 21 Oct 2025

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
8.8	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	ADP (CISA-ADP)

CISA KEV Listed since 3 Nov 2021: known to be exploited.
EPSS 0.53, the 98th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 8 Jan 2019. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-0541 confirm
www.securityfocus.com/bid/106402 vdb-entrybid
www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46536/ exploitexploit-db

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.