CVE-2019-0561 Information disclosure in Microsoft Office

What is CVE-2019-0561?

CVE-2019-0561 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Office, published on 8 Jan 2019. 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 Word macro buttons are used improperly, aka "Microsoft Word Information Disclosure Vulnerability." This affects Microsoft Word, Office 365 ProPlus, Microsoft Office, Word.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-0561?

It affects 6 products.

Products include Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office 365 Proplus, Microsoft Office Web Apps Server, Microsoft Sharepoint Server, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Word Automation Services.

How do I fix CVE-2019-0561?

No fix has been published for CVE-2019-0561 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2019-0561 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-0561 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-f8fc-7qhq-w549.