CVE-2018-8150 Security feature bypass in Microsoft Office

What is CVE-2018-8150?

CVE-2018-8150 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Office, published on 9 May 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

A security feature bypass vulnerability exists when the Microsoft Outlook attachment block filter does not properly handle attachments, aka "Microsoft Outlook Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability." This affects Microsoft Office.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-8150?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Microsoft Office.

How do I fix CVE-2018-8150?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-8150 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2018-8150 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-8150 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-gcj2-8cp7-j4jx.