# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2020-16855"
idYear: 2020
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2020-09-11T17:08:38.000Z"
updatedAt: "2024-08-04T13:45:33.993Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:17.081Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2020-16855"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2020-16855.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-16855"
title: "Microsoft Office Information Disclosure Vulnerability"
summary: "\u003cp\u003eAn information disclosure vulnerability exists when Microsoft Office software reads out of bound memory due to an uninitialized variable, which could disclose the contents of memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could view out of bound memory.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExploitation of the vulnerability requires that a user open a specially crafted file with an affected version of Microsoft Office software.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe security update addresses the vulnerability by properly initializing the affected variable.\u003c/p\u003e"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"16.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"publication"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Microsoft Office 2019 for Mac","platforms":["Unknown"]},{"versions":[{"version":"16.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"publication"}],"vendor":"Microsoft","product":"Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac","platforms":["Unknown"]}]

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