PT-2018-9084

CVE-2018-0819

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Published

2018-01-10

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Updated

2019-10-03

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CVSS 3.1
6.5
Medium
MetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Microsoft Office for Mac version 2016
Description: The issue allows an attacker to send a specially crafted email attachment to a user in an attempt to launch a social engineering attack, such as phishing, due to how Outlook for Mac displays encoded email addresses.
Recommendations: For Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac, update the software to a version that fixes the issue, or consider disabling the display of encoded email addresses in Outlook for Mac as a temporary workaround to minimize the risk of exploitation.
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