CVE-2026-124228
A NVD · · CVE-2026-124228
Admiralty grading (A–F · 1–6)
Source reliability
- A Completely reliable
- B Usually reliable
- C Fairly reliable
- D Not usually reliable
- E Unreliable
- F Cannot be judged
Information credibility
- 1 Confirmed
- 2 Probably true
- 3 Possibly true
- 4 Doubtful
- 5 Improbable
- 6 Cannot be judged
NATO Admiralty (AJP-2.1) grades confidence, independent of the risk score. Cross-source corroboration isn't tracked for non-CVE news, so single-source items are capped at a lower credibility number; a low number does not imply low quality.
Key metrics
- CVSS
- 8.8
- EPSS
- 0%
Key insight
The alert only provides the NVD description of the path traversal vulnerability in Outlook; there is no information on active exploitation, affected versions, or attacker TTPs.
Description
CVE-2026-124228 concerns a path traversal vulnerability in Microsoft Office Outlook. Due to improper limitation of a pathname to a restricted directory, an authorized attacker can execute code over the network. The alert originates from the NVD and contains no information on active exploitation, PoC status, or affected versions. Further details on attack vectors or TTPs are not provided.
Risk score
- cvss base
- 88.00
- kev bonus
- 0.00
- epss bonus
- 0.00
- poc bonus
- 0.00
- raw before weight
- 88.00
- industry weight
- 1.21
- freshness factor
- 1.00
- exploitability factor
- 1.00
- days old
- 0.00
- vendor mismatch penalty
- 0.00
Path: operational