Local protection bypass after user interaction
Published Jul 12, 2022 · Updated Jul 8, 2025
Security feature bypass in affected Microsoft Office releases allows local users to bypass a protection after required user interaction. Microsoft has not published the affected component, the security control bypassed, or the operation performed on untrusted input. Exploitation requires local access and user interaction but no privileges; the vendor reports integrity impact without describing the resulting change.
Summary
What happened
Security feature bypass in affected Microsoft Office releases allows local users to bypass a protection after required user interaction. Microsoft has not published the affected component, the security control bypassed, or the operation performed on untrusted input. Exploitation requires local access and user interaction but no privileges; the vendor reports integrity impact without describing the resulting change.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-33632
- Published
- Jul 12, 2022
- Updated
- Jul 8, 2025
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Microsoft Office 2016
- Classifications
- Unavailable
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jul 12, 2022CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jul 8, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=16.0.0 <16.0.5344.1000
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