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CVE-2018-8244

MEDIUM severity · CVSS 6.5 · Improper input validation
6.5CVSS MEDIUM

Summary

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Microsoft Outlook does not validate attachment headers properly, aka "Microsoft Outlook Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability." This affects Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionRequired
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)5%

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2018-8244 ↗