CVE-2017-8508 is a security feature bypass vulnerability affecting Microsoft Office, specifically Microsoft Outlook, where it improperly parses file formats. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.5) requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L) to achieve a high impact on integrity (I:H), potentially allowing an attacker to bypass security features. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog and lacking public exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, including a mention in a BleepingComputer article regarding Microsoft's June Patch Tuesday fixes.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2007CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:outlook:2007:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2010CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:outlook:2010:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2013CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:outlook:2013:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2016CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:outlook:2016:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/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.