CVE-2020-16855

Microsoft Office Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Medium · published September 11, 2020

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
4%
Percentile
91.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

<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>

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
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
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.04425 · 91.3th percentile
Published
2020-09-11T17:08Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 11 SEP 17:08Z
    Microsoft Office Information Disclosure Vulnerability
    cvelistv5