CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-8627

Use of Uninitialized Resource

Published: Dec 12, 2018 | Modified: Aug 24, 2020
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

An information disclosure vulnerability exists when Microsoft Excel software reads out of bound memory due to an uninitialized variable, which could disclose the contents of memory, aka Microsoft Excel Information Disclosure Vulnerability. This affects Microsoft Office, Office 365 ProPlus, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Excel Viewer, Excel. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2018-8598.

Weakness

The product uses or accesses a resource that has not been initialized.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Excel Microsoft 2010-sp2 (including) 2010-sp2 (including)
Excel Microsoft 2013-sp1 (including) 2013-sp1 (including)
Excel Microsoft 2016 (including) 2016 (including)
Excel_viewer Microsoft 2007-sp3 (including) 2007-sp3 (including)
Office Microsoft 2010-sp2 (including) 2010-sp2 (including)
Office Microsoft 2016 (including) 2016 (including)
Office Microsoft 2019 (including) 2019 (including)
Office_365_proplus Microsoft - (including) - (including)
Office_compatibility_pack Microsoft –sp3 (including) –sp3 (including)
Sharepoint_server Microsoft 2010-sp2 (including) 2010-sp2 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References