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CVE-2026-70125 Microsoft Office Outlook Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Updated one or more CVSS scores for the affected products. This is an informational change only.

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    CVE-2026-70125 Microsoft Office Outlook Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

    Updated one or more CVSS scores for the affected products. This is an informational change only.

  2. Version 2 Headline and summary changed

    The headline was rewritten. 2 new sentences, beginning: “CWE added.”

    CVE-2026-70125 Microsoft Office Outlook Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

    CWE added. Informational change only.

  3. As first published

    CVE-2026-70125 Microsoft Outlook Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

    Information published. This CVE was addressed by updates that were released in September 2026, but the CVE was inadvertently omitted from the September 2026 Security Updates. This is an informational change only. Customers who have already installed the September 2026 updates do not need to take any further action.

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Why am I seeing this Ranked on source trust — Microsoft

It ranks mainly on source trust: Microsoft is the most reliable outlet we track on this subject, and is the only one on the story so far.

It clears the bar without leading strongly on any one factor. A middling score is not a claim that the story is important — only that nothing about it is weak.

StandardStandard, because a first-party source is on it, the subject was identified from the text, and it scores 0.49 against a bar of 0.50.

Blended score 0.493 — every figure below is computed, none of it is editorial.
FactorWeightScore ContributionWhere it came from
Corroboration 0.35 0.39 +0.135 27% 1 independent org on the story. Tier-3 aggregators never corroborate — they can show something is circulating, never that it is true.
Source trustleads 0.25 1.00 +0.250 51% Microsoft is the highest-trust source on this story and is first-party — the organisation announcing its own news. Trust is taken from the best source, not averaged.
Pickup rate 0.20 0.00 +0.000 0% One counted organisation, so there is no spread to measure — nothing has picked this up to set a rate.
Freshness 0.20 0.54 +0.108 22% Halves every 10 hours from the newest item on the story. This is the only factor that rewards a story for nothing more than being recent.

Corroboration counts distinct organisations, once each, and only from tiers 1 and 2. Freshness halves every 10 hours, so this ranking is a snapshot and will differ at the next build.

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What happened

Updated one or more CVSS scores for the affected products.

1independent orgs
49story score
0velocity
100source trust
320passes seen
Moderate CVE-2026-70125

Limited impact or meaningful preconditions.

Impact
Remote Code Execution
Product
Microsoft Office Outlook

How this story arrived

Ordered by when each source was first observed, which is what the velocity figure is computed from. Publishers backdate; observed order does not.

  1. 01 Microsoftfirst-party first seen CVE-2026-70125 Microsoft Outlook Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

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