CVE-2019-1402 Information disclosure in Microsoft Office

What is CVE-2019-1402?

CVE-2019-1402 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Office, published on 12 Nov 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An information disclosure vulnerability exists in Microsoft Office software when the software fails to properly handle objects in memory, aka 'Microsoft Office Information Disclosure Vulnerability'.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-1402?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office 365.

How do I fix CVE-2019-1402?

No fix has been published for CVE-2019-1402 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2019-1402 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-1402 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code: 1 proofs of concept on GitHub.

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-59hc-rfcg-f7w2.