Description
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Microsoft Outlook initiates processing of incoming messages without sufficient validation of the formatting of the messages. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could attempt to force Outlook to load a local or remote message store (over SMB). To exploit the vulnerability, the attacker could send a specially crafted email to a victim. Outlook would then attempt to open a pre-configured message store contained in the email upon receipt of the email. This update addresses the vulnerability by ensuring Office fully validates incoming email formatting before processing message content.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
Microsoft Microsoft Office 2019
19.0.0 to < https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleasesaffected
Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus
16.0.0 to < publicationaffected
Microsoft Microsoft Outlook 2016
16.0.0.0 to < publicationaffected
Microsoft Microsoft Outlook 2013 Service Pack 1
15.0.0.0 to < publicationaffected
Microsoft Microsoft Outlook 2010 Service Pack 2
13.0.0.0 to < publicationaffected