CVE-2020-0696 Security feature bypass in Microsoft Office

What is CVE-2020-0696?

CVE-2020-0696 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Office, published on 11 Feb 2020. 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 in Microsoft Outlook software when it improperly handles the parsing of URI formats, aka 'Microsoft Outlook Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability'.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-0696?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office 365 Proplus, Microsoft Outlook.

How do I fix CVE-2020-0696?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-0696 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2020-0696 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-0696 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-fjxj-rf74-7qr4.