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High MSRC-CVE-2022-30172 1 CVE

Microsoft Office Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Published Jun 14, 2022 · Updated Jun 14, 2022

Summary

Impact: Information Disclosure. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.

Details

According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do?
Exploitation of the vulnerability requires that a user open a specially crafted file.
In an email attack scenario, an attacker could exploit the vulnerability by sending the specially crafted file to the user and convincing the user to open the file., In a web-based attack scenario, an attacker could host a website (or leverage a compromised website that accepts or hosts user-provided content) containing a specially crafted file designed to exploit the vulnerability.
An attacker would have no way to force users to visit the website. Instead, an attacker would have to convince users to click a link, typically by way of an enticement in an email or instant message, and then convince them to open the specially crafted file.

What type of information could be disclosed by this vulnerability?
The type of information that could be disclosed if an attacker successfully exploited this vulnerability is memory layout - the vulnerability allows an attacker to collect information that facilitates predicting addressing of the memory.

Security updates
16.0.5332.1001 — https://support.microsoft.com/kb/5002222
15.0.5459.1001 — https://support.microsoft.com/kb/5002062
16.0.10387.20008 — https://support.microsoft.com/kb/5002212
16.0.14931.20612 — https://support.microsoft.com/kb/5002210
15.0.5459.1001 — https://support.microsoft.com/kb/5002214
16.0.14931.20418 — https://support.microsoft.com/kb/5002224

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