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MS Office Outlook Information Disclosure Vulnerability - 2813682 (Mac OS X)
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Mac OS X Local Security Checks
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
5.0
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
11 years ago
Modified
Modified
4 years ago
Summary
This host is missing an important security update according to Microsoft Bulletin MS13-026.
Insight
Insight
The flaw is due to Microsoft Outlook for Mac loading certain tags when previewing an HTML email, which can be exploited to load content from a remote server and confirm the existence of the targeted email accounts.
Affected Software
Affected Software
Microsoft Office 2008 on Mac OS X Microsoft Office 2011 on Mac OS X
Solution
Solution
Apply the patch from the referenced advisory.