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Use of Uninitialized Resource

CVE-2018-8627

Severity Medium
Score 5.5/10

Summary

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.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • NONE

CWE-908 - Use of Uninitialized Resource

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

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published