Microsoft advisory for CVE-2018-8305
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products1
- Mail, Calendar, and People in Windows 8.1 App Store
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2018-8305
- EchelonGraph score
- 6.5 MEDIUM
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- No fix is confirmed yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for the fix.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
An information disclosure vulnerability exists in Windows Mail Client when a message is opened, aka "Windows Mail Client Information Disclosure Vulnerability." This affects Mail, Calendar, and People in Windows 8.1 App Store.
Published by Microsoft Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2018-8305, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).