title: Microsoft Office Information Disclosure Vulnerability
description: <p>An information disclosure vulnerability exists when Microsoft Office software reads out of bound memory due to an uninitialized variable, which could disclose the contents of memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could view out of bound memory.</p>
<p>Exploitation of the vulnerability requires that a user open a specially crafted file with an affected version of Microsoft Office software.</p>
<p>The security update addresses the vulnerability by properly initializing the affected variable.</p>
problem types: Information Disclosure
affected:
{
vendor: Microsoft
product: Microsoft Office 2019 for Mac
cpes: cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2019:*:*:*:*:macos:*:*
platforms: Unknown
versions:
version: 16.0.0, lessThan: publication, versionType: custom, status: affected
}
{
vendor: Microsoft
product: Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac
cpes: cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2016:*:*:*:*:mac_os:*:*
platforms: Unknown
versions:
version: 16.0.0, lessThan: publication, versionType: custom, status: affected
}
metrics:
format: CVSS
scenarios: GENERAL
cvssV3_1: [
version: 3.1
baseSeverity: MEDIUM
baseScore: 5.5
vectorString: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
]