CVE-2018-8163 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2018-8163?

CVE-2018-8163 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Excel, published on 9 May 2018. 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

An information disclosure vulnerability exists when Microsoft Excel improperly discloses the contents of its memory, aka "Microsoft Excel Information Disclosure Vulnerability." This affects Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-8163?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office.

How do I fix CVE-2018-8163?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-8163 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2018-8163 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-8163 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel

• CVE-2019-1297 Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2009-0238 Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2016-7262 Microsoft Office Security Feature Bypass Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2009-3129 Microsoft Excel Featheader Record Memory Corruption Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2008-0081 Code injection in n/a Critical 9.8

All Microsoft Excel vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-3jcj-hgr2-f986.