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CVE-2015-1641 Unmapped

Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Vendor / product
Microsoft — Office
Description (CISA)
Microsoft Office contains a memory corruption vulnerability due to failure to properly handle rich text format files in memory. Successful exploitation allows for remote code execution in the context of the current user.
Added to KEV
2021-11-03
Due date
2022-05-03
Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Known ransomware use
Unknown
CWE
CWE-399
CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-1641
Elsewhere
cve.org · NVD · CISA KEV · JSON

ATT&CK techniques

No public source states how this vulnerability is exploited in ATT&CK terms.

The only authoritative CVE → ATT&CK mapping in the open — CTID's Mappings Explorer, pinned to a KEV snapshot of 2025-07-28 and ATT&CK 16.1 — does not include CVE-2015-1641. CISA's catalogue carries no technique field. kevmap does not infer techniques from the CWE (CWE-399) — here is why — and does not guess.

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Sigma rules tagged with this CVE

1 rule in SigmaHQ carries the tag cve.2015-1641. These are shown as detection content for the CVE itself. Their ATT&CK tags are deliberately not rendered here: a rule author's tag is not an authoritative statement of how the vulnerability is exploited, and this page does not show techniques for unmapped entries.

Author: Florian Roth (Nextron Systems) · 2018-02-22 (modified 2021-11-27) · logsource: product=windows category=process_creation · 7993792c-5ce2-4475-a3db-a3a5539827ef
Detects Winword starting uncommon sub process MicroScMgmt.exe as used in exploits for CVE-2015-1641
CVE tags: CVE-2015-1641