Microsoft advisory for CVE-2018-8474 — Microsoft Lync for Mac 2011
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products1
- Microsoft Lync for Mac 2011
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2018-8474
- EchelonGraph score
- 7.7 HIGH
- 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
A security feature bypass vulnerability exists when Lync for Mac 2011 fails to properly sanitize specially crafted messages, aka "Lync for Mac 2011 Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability." This affects Microsoft Lync.
Published by Microsoft Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2018-8474, 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).