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High MSRC-CVE-2023-35636 1 CVE

Microsoft Outlook Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Published Dec 12, 2023 · Updated Dec 12, 2023

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.

Is the Preview Pane an attack vector for this vulnerability?
No, the Preview Pane is not an attack vector.

What type of information could be disclosed by this vulnerability?
Exploiting this vulnerability could allow the disclosure of NTLM hashes.

Security updates
https — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/microsoft365-apps-security-updates
16.0.5426.1000 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5002529

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Revision history

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    Information published.

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