LOW SEVERITY

CVE-2018-0919

Office vulnerability

CVSS
3.3
EPSS
11.9%
EPSS pct
96th
Exploited
No known
Microsoft Office 2010 SP2, 2013 SP1, and 2016, Microsoft Office 2016 Click-to-Run Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac, Microsoft Office Web Apps 2010 SP2, Microsoft Office Web Apps 2013 SP1, Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server 2013 SP1, Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 SP2, Microsoft Word 2010 SP2, Word 2013 SP1 and Microsoft Word 2016 allow an information disclosure vulnerability due to how variables are initialized, aka "Microsoft Office Information Disclosure Vulnerability".
Affected vendor
Microsoft
Affected product
Office
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read
  • CWE-908 — Use of Uninitialized Resource
Published
2018-03-14

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable with local access, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to low impact to confidentiality.

Its EPSS score of 11.9% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2018-0919

  • Confirm whether Microsoft Office is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2018-0919.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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