CVE-2019-0801 Code injection in Microsoft Office

What is CVE-2019-0801?

CVE-2019-0801 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Microsoft Office, published on 9 Apr 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

A remote code execution vulnerability exists when Microsoft Office fails to properly handle certain files.To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would have to convince a user to open a specially crafted URL file that points to an Excel or PowerPoint file that was also downloaded.The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Office handles these files., aka 'Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability'.

Weakness: CWE-19

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-0801?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office 365 Proplus.

How do I fix CVE-2019-0801?

No fix has been published for CVE-2019-0801 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2019-0801 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-0801 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-9f2h-rch5-q9wg.