Local disclosure of confidential data
Published Nov 9, 2022 · Updated Aug 10, 2026
Security-feature bypass in affected Microsoft Excel and Office releases allows attackers to access confidential data after user interaction. Microsoft has not published the affected Excel component or the incorrect operation it performs on untrusted input. Exploitation requires a local attack path and user interaction with attacker-controlled content; the reported consequence is disclosure only.
Summary
What happened
Security-feature bypass in affected Microsoft Excel and Office releases allows attackers to access confidential data after user interaction. Microsoft has not published the affected Excel component or the incorrect operation it performs on untrusted input. Exploitation requires a local attack path and user interaction with attacker-controlled content; the reported consequence is disclosure only.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-41104
- Published
- Nov 9, 2022
- Updated
- Aug 10, 2026
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Microsoft Office 2019
- Classifications
- Unavailable
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Nov 9, 2022CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 10, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=19.0.0 <https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
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