CVE-2018-8429 is an information disclosure vulnerability in Microsoft Excel, Excel Viewer, and Office that allows an attacker to improperly disclose the contents of the application's memory. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.5) requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L) to exploit, potentially leading to a high impact on confidentiality (C:H) but no impact on integrity or availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) is unavailable. Community discussion and media coverage are minimal, suggesting limited public attention.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2010CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:2010:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2013CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:2013:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2013CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:2013:sp1:*:*:rt:*:*:* | ||
2016CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:2016:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2007CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel_viewer:2007:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.