MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2018-1007

Office vulnerability

CVSS
5.3
EPSS
6.7%
EPSS pct
93th
Exploited
No known
An information disclosure vulnerability exists when Microsoft Office improperly discloses the contents of its memory, aka "Microsoft Office Information Disclosure Vulnerability." This affects Microsoft Office. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2018-0950.
Affected vendor
Microsoft
Affected product
Office
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Published
2018-04-12

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, high attack complexity, requiring no privileges, user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality.

Its EPSS score of 6.7% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 93% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2018-1007

  • Confirm whether Microsoft Office is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2018-1007.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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