Microsoft Office/PowerPoint information disclosure

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A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in Microsoft Office and PowerPoint. This vulnerability affects unknown code. The manipulation leads to information disclosure. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2026-68809. The attack needs to be performed locally. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Microsoft Office and PowerPoint (the affected version is unknown). This issue affects an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Incomplete cleanup in Microsoft Office PowerPoint allows an unauthorized attacker to disclose information locally.

The advisory is shared at msrc.microsoft.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-68809 since 07/31/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592 for this issue.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Office Suite Software

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• Microsoft

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• Office
• PowerPoint

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.microsoft.com/

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