CVE detail

CVE-2020-16855 — CVE-2020-16855

Published 2020-09-11 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor microsoft · Product office · Source nvd
MEDIUM
severity
CVSS-derived band
5.5
CVSS v3
0–10 scale
0.0442
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
90.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog

Description

<p>An information disclosure vulnerability exists when Microsoft Office software reads out of bound memory due to an uninitialized variable, which could disclose the contents of memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could view out of bound memory.</p> <p>Exploitation of the vulnerability requires that a user open a specially crafted file with an affected version of Microsoft Office software.</p> <p>The security update addresses the vulnerability by properly initializing the affected variable.</p>

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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