CVE-1999-1259 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-1999-1259?

CVE-1999-1259 is a low-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Office, published on 9 Mar 2002. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Microsoft Office 98, Macintosh Edition, does not properly initialize the disk space used by Office 98 files and effectively inserts data from previously deleted files into the Office file, which could allow attackers to obtain sensitive information.

Which versions are affected by CVE-1999-1259?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Microsoft Office.

How do I fix CVE-1999-1259?

No fix has been published for CVE-1999-1259 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-1999-1259 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-1999-1259 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office

• CVE-2018-0798 Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2015-1770 Microsoft Office Uninitialized Memory Use Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2006-2492 Microsoft Word Malformed Object Pointer Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2018-0802 Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2017-11882 Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Exploited High 7.8

All Microsoft Office vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-4fg5-9xqq-h6cq.