Microsoft security update for CVE-2026-72956
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products8
- Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise for 32-bit Systems
- Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise for 64-bit Systems
- Microsoft Office 2019 for 32-bit editions
- Microsoft Office 2019 for 64-bit editions
- Microsoft Office LTSC 2021 for 32-bit editions
- Microsoft Office LTSC 2021 for 64-bit editions
- Microsoft Office LTSC 2024 for 32-bit editions
- Microsoft Office LTSC 2024 for 64-bit editions
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 4 updates
4 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | 16.0.10417.20207 |
| — | Security Update | 16.0.20326.20138 |
| — | Security Update | 16.0.14334.20906 |
| — | Security Update | 16.0.17932.20976 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2026-72956
- EchelonGraph score
- 6.5 MEDIUM
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
Untrusted pointer dereference in Microsoft Office PowerPoint allows an unauthorized attacker to disclose information over a network.
Published by Microsoft Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2026-72956, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).